Davidson Resilience Scale

The Connor-Davidson Resilience scale (CD-RISC) comprises of 25 items, each rated on a 5-point scale (0-4), with higher scores reflecting greater resilience (Connor & Davidson 2003). The 10 and 2 item scales can be completed in between 1 and 5 minutes. The scale was administered to subjects in several settings including community sample for generalized anxiety disorder, and two clinical trials of PTSD. The reliability, validity, and factor analytic structure of the scale were evaluated, and reference scores for study samples were calculated. Sensitivity to treatment effects was examined in subjects from the PTSD clinical trials. The scale demonstrated good psychometric properties and factor analysis yielded five factors. A repeated ANOVA measure indicated that an increase in CD-RISC score was associated with greater improvement during treatment. The scale demonstrates that resilience is modifiable and can improve with treatment, with greater improvement corresponding to higher levels of global improvement. A copy of the instrument is attached at the appendix of this paper. 2.

The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) is an instrument that represent a multi-item scale for the overall assessment of life satisfaction as a cognitive-judgmental process to adult non-psychiatric adult population. The SWLS scores were shown to be predictably associated with other measures of subjective well-being and with health attitudes and were not affected by sex, age, educational level, health insurance status or social desirability, but, as could be expected, clearly so by marital status (Arrindell, et al., 1991). A sample copy is attached at the