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

For adults who know a young person well, the Child and Youth Resilience Measure-Revised (CYRM-R) Test offers a structured way to organize observations about an adolescent’s coping and support. Parents, caregivers, educators, and youth workers can use this child resilience test to compare perspectives and open a constructive conversation about the young person’s experience. The result is a profile that organizes discussion rather than a single judgment about the adolescent.

What This Assessment Explores

Resilience in this assessment is viewed as an interaction between personal resources and the social environment, not as a fixed trait. The statements address relationships, communication, safety, education, cultural belonging, practical care, responsible behavior, and access to support from family, friends, school, and community. This youth resilience assessment is suited to an adult or young person able to describe the adolescent’s everyday context.

The three displayed dimensions show which resources are most evident:

• Social Resilience (7-35) measures family and environmental support: Limited support (7-16), Developing support (17-26), or Strong support (27-35).
• Personal Resilience (10-50) measures socialization, flexibility, self-development, and education: Lower resources (10-23), Developing resources (24-36), or Strong resources (37-50).
• Overall Psychological Resilience (17-85) measures coping, adaptation, and resource use under stress: Needs more support (17-60), Adequate resilience (61-75), or Strong resilience (76-85).

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each statement uses a five-point agreement scale from Strongly disagree to Strongly agree. Items address both the adolescent’s capacities and surrounding support, so responses should reflect usual circumstances rather than one exceptional day. Results are reported through the displayed scale totals and bands; no further scoring rule is stated for this questionnaire.

The source instrument is the published CYRM-R revision by Jefferies, McGarrigle, and Ungar in 2019, whose Rasch analysis examines item responses along a resilience continuum. The earlier CYRM was described by Ungar and Liebenberg in 2011, and the Resilience Research Centre’s 2022 user manual gives application guidance. As a psychological resilience questionnaire, this online version is conceptually consistent with the published CYRM-R and related sources, but is not the published instrument or a separately validated adaptation.

Interpret the profile as reported resources and coping in the covered situations. Higher results suggest strengths in those areas; lower results may identify topics for support or conversation. The displayed bands are interpretive categories, not population norms or clinical thresholds; stress, cultural expectations, self-awareness, and knowledge of the adolescent can influence responses.