Child and Youth Resilience Measure—Revised (CYRM-R) Test

For caregivers, educators, and professionals who want to understand a young person’s strengths in context, the Child and Youth Resilience Measure-Revised (CYRM-R) Test offers a structured reflection on personal resources and surrounding support. This resilience questionnaire for young people can clarify which areas may deserve conversation, encouragement, or practical attention without reducing resilience to a fixed personal trait.

What This Assessment Measures

Used as a resilience assessment for children, the questionnaire treats coping as an interaction between personal qualities and environment. Items cover relationships, safety, belonging, education, culture, opportunities, and basic resources.

Questions touch on social understanding, feelings, responsibility, and available help. These dimensions describe personal resources alongside the support available in the young person’s environment. The displayed dimensions are:

• Social Resilience (7-35) measures family and wider support: Limited support (7-16), Some support (17-25), or Strong support (26-35), with higher bands indicating more supportive relationships.
• Personal Resilience (10-50) measures internal resources for self-development, socialization, and adaptation: Lower personal resilience (10-23), Moderate personal resilience (24-36), or Higher personal resilience (37-50), with higher bands indicating stronger coping resources.
• Overall Psychological Resilience (17-85) measures coping, adaptation, and balance under stress: Low (17-60), Moderate (61-69), or High (70-85), with higher bands indicating stronger personal and social resources.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each item uses a five-point agreement format, from Strongly disagree to Strongly agree, with a neutral midpoint. The respondent selects the option that best matches their experience, and responses are combined into the three displayed dimensions. As an online questionnaire, interpretation follows the stated ranges and bands rather than an inferred points-per-answer rule.

The evidence base for this child resilience questionnaire is CYRM-R (Jefferies et al., 2019), which used Rasch analysis to examine item functioning in a revised resilience measure. The online questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that work, but its scoring display should not be treated as the published instrument’s scoring system. It also aligns with the cross-cultural construction framework associated with Ungar and Liebenberg (2011), where resilience includes access to resources that support coping in context.

Results can focus discussion on support, safety, belonging, relationships, and development opportunities. The result display presents bands for each dimension, while self-report answers reflect the respondent’s current view of relationships, safety, and coping. Scores may vary with current stress, changing relationships, wording, self-awareness, and willingness to answer openly, so a band does not explain its cause or predict a fixed outcome.