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The Resilience Scale User's Guide is an absolutely essential tool for researchers that will pay for itself again and again.
If you want to properly administer the Resilience Scale and accurately interpret your results, you need this. Not only can it save you days of looking for references on Resilience, but most importantly, the User's Guide gives you Dr. Wagnild's recommendations on the best way to administer the Resilience Scale in order to get the best results, and how to correctly interpret your results. Some features include:
- A 10-page, detailed explanation of Resilience, including definitions of resilience, "State vs. Trait," the "Resilience Core," and the "Model of Resilience."
- 22 pages of references that include related studies, literature, books, and translations. Think of the time this can save...the references alone are worth the price of the User's Guide!
- 28 tables and seven figures, plus page after page of references and discussion of results from using the 25-item Resilience Scale, representing over 20 years of research into Resilience by Dr. Wagnild and others.
- 18 pages of brand-new research results and analyses from use of the 14-item Resilience Scale, including its relationship to factors such as depression and health status. This section contains 18 tables and 12 charts andresults and analyses.
- Get Dr. Wagnild's recommendations on the best way to administer the Resilience Scale and the RS-14 in order to get the best results, how to score the RS, and 24 pages, including 24 tables, to show you how to correctly interpret your results.
- Understand the reliability and validity of both tools, with a chapter devoted to each topic.
- Learn about the development of the Resilience Scale and the RS-14 and how they are are based on real research based on interviews with resilient adults.
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About the User's Guide
Dr. Gail Wagnild, principal author of the Resilience Scale and RS-14, has poured into the Resilience Scale User's Guide over 20 years of experience, data, references, statistics, interpretations, and observations about resilience, the Resilience Scale, and the RS-14. She gives clear instructions on how to properly administer the scale, and shows you how to interpret the results. She also offers unique insights into the development and validity of the resilience model itself.
The 128-page Resilience Scale User’s Guide is packed with important information that you will find invaluable when administering, scoring, and interpreting your results. It is an elegant publication, made of high-quality, durable materials, and it is spiral-bound so that it lays flat on the desk for convenient reference.
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Hypercharge your resilience research with the
Resilience Scale User's Guide
This is an essential tool if you want to properly administer the Resilience Scale and accurately interpret your results.
In the newly-revised Version 3.2, you get:
- 22 pages of references - this alone is worth the price!
- A 10-page, detailed explanation of Resilience.
- 74 tables and 21 figures, plus references and discussion.
- 8 pages of brand-new research results & analyses for the 25-item RS.
- 18 pages of research results & analyses for the 14-item RS.
- Dr. Wagnild's recom-mendations on administering the RS.
Click here to learn more about the Resilience Scale User's Guide™