Folan Resilience Scale
This questionnaire has been designed to assist you in reflecting on your personal resilience levels.
After completion you will be able to identify your overall level of resilience along with:
- Identifying the areas of resilience that are strengths,
- Identifying the areas of resilience that are potential vulnerabilities or blind spots.
The Folan Resilience Scale is designed to assess your resilience against an organisational model of resilience developed by Dr Lynda Folan as part of her research investigating the link between resilience and leadership (Folan, 2019).
Directions: Please read each statement carefully and then rate the degree to which you agree or disagree with the statement. It is important not to overthink your responses, your first reaction is normally the most accurate.
Folan Resilience Scale
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Interpreting the scores:
Score range 220 to 240: Very resilient
You are consistently able to deal with change, challenges, and tough times. You deal with the change, and challenges effectively can find fun and enjoyment in ambiguity and disruption. You have meaning in your life, know yourself well and are aware of and able to control and choose your thoughts, feelings and attitude.
Score range 190 to 220: Fairly Resilient
Most of the time, you can cope and deal with tough times, challenge and change positively. You have strategies to cope, which also enable you to experience joy and fulfilment in your life from time to time. To be able to bounce back from adversity quicker and with less difficulty, and also to live your life filled with more joy and fulfilment, you should consider developing your resilience in the lower-rated principles of resilience.
Score range 130 to 190: Partially Resilient
You do have some strategies, which you use to deal tough times, change and challenges. These strategies, however, do not enable you to consistently and effectively cope and thrive in demanding circumstances. You would, therefore, benefit from working on the Principles of Resilience to develop your resilience plan. The place to start is enhancing your stronger aspects and then focusing on the lowest scoring Principles of Resilience.
Score range 90 to 130: Somewhat resilient
You have limited strategies, which you use to keep going in tough times. These strategies, however, do not enable you to consistently and effectively cope, and you are likely to be undermining your health and well-being. You would, therefore, benefit from consistent work on developing your resilience plan. The place to start is the lowest scoring Principles of Resilience.
Score range Below 90: Not very resilient
Change, adversity and tough times often seem to upset your equilibrium, and you struggle to cope with the uncertainty and the lack of stability they bring. At times like this, you do not experience much joy and vigour in your life, as you often struggle to get through the day. To cope and bring perspective, fun and enjoyment back in your life, start by developing resilience through a personal resilience plan. Begin this by reviewing your lowest scoring Principles of Resilience and work from there as to what would be most effective for you.