Resilience Survey
The Resilience Survey empowers students and educators, delivering powerful insights to create a Connected, Protected, Respected school culture.
The Resilience Survey is an online survey which collects, analyses and reports the resilience of young people at a cohort level in terms of their strengths, life satisfaction, hopefulness, anxiety and depression, coping style, and risk and protective behaviours.
Specifically, the survey measures the resilience and wellbeing of your young people across 9 key domains: Understanding Self, Social Skills, Positive Relationships, Safety, Healthy Body and Healthy Mind, Learning, Positive Attitude, Positive Values, Positive Identity.
Key features of the Resilience Survey include:
Widely used, definitive
The Resilience Survey has been administered to over 600,000 young Australians aged 7-19 and used in over 2,400 schools nationwide.
Scientifically valid and reliable
The Survey incorporates six scientifically validated, reliable and internationally accepted measures:
1. The Cantril Self Anchoring Scale (CSAS)
2. The Children’s Hope Scale (CHS)
3. Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2)
4. General Anxiety Disorder (GAD-2)
5. Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-4)
6. The Coping Strategies Inventory [avoidance sub-scale] (CSI)
This means you can rely on the results as an accurate measure of the resilience, mental health and wellbeing of the young people in your school or community. It also provides a sound basis for planning and implementing targeted resilience building initiatives.
University co-developed
The School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy at the University of South Australia has been a partner since 2016, in developing and testing the work of Resilient Youth Australia and co-writing peer reviewed journal articles utilising our significant student data-set of more than 600,000 Australian students aged 7 -19 years of age.
The Resilience Survey was developed in collaboration with the Department of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy at the University of South Australia (UniSA), led by Professor Kurt Lushington and Professor Jill Dorrian.
User experience
The Resilience Survey is easy to administer at a classroom level and user-friendly for students aged 7+.
Customised survey periods
Survey at a time you select, whenever there is a need to acquire the data and analysis that best suits your community.
Online, quick and user friendly
The 60-question survey can be completed online in under 25 minutes.
A short 36-questions survey is also available.
Rapid turnaround of reports
Through our online client portal your school survey data is available instantly (on demand) and interactive in a full range of formats, with easy to read and interpret gender and year level detail.
Easy-to-read reports
Easy-to-read reports are available on your portal, including the Snapshot Report for a quick overview of a year group, campus or whole school.
Action-oriented
The Resilience Survey puts relevant, actionable data in your hands.
Our practical questions and easy to interpret results can lead directly to easily identified areas for positive action.
Confidential, safe and secure
All student data is non-identified and anonymous. Data transmission and storage is secure.
Clear, context-based advice
As data and wellbeing experts, with decades of education experience, we have the expertise to guide you through the process of making great data-backed decisions.
Compare your students
Our large-scale evidence base provides powerful norm comparisons: by gender, between year levels (Cross-sectional) and from year to year (Longitudinal) and compared to Australian Norms.
Bespoke data analysis
Our in-house statisticians can ‘slice and dice’ your data to meet your specific requirements.
Key benefits of the Resilience Survey include:
Strategic wellbeing planning
By adopting the Resilience Survey and using the detailed, user-friendly survey reports, school leaders can put efficient and effective data-based strategies in place to enhance their student education outcomes and school community wellbeing.
Grow leadership
Relevant, actionable data helps foster leadership success while navigating a changing and increasingly complex education environment.
Resilient Youth Australia supports school leaders and leadership teams to make effective and measurable data-based decisions as they seek to create healthier schools on the path to improved learning outcomes.
Reduce workload and save money
Have a detailed wellbeing evidence-base at your fingertips to support strategic and implementation plans, resource allocation, teacher professional development priorities and more operational HR considerations.
Sustain academic success
Student resilience and mental health data are strongly linked to learning outcomes, so it’s vital to know what students are experiencing in school and beyond the school.
Reduce risk
Many current accountability and compliance requirements focus on OH&S and risk mitigation throughout school communities. Resilient Youth Australia can help reduce risk by enabling successful evidence-based decisions by leadership founded on an ability to pinpoint specific problems earlier and applying relevant measurable strategies and actions.
Support your Wellbeing and Counselling staff
Your wellbeing and counselling staff are supported to better know their students’ wellbeing strengths and challenges. Importantly, this can be provided by year group, school campus and whole school levels and will be segmented by gender.
Resilient Youth Australia can support specialist staff to use clear evidence from these cohorts to plan responses to the evidence as well as introduce and measure the success of initiatives over time.
Detailed year-level information
Know each year-level like never before. Coordinators can compare year-levels (cross-sectional) and past year cohorts (longitudinal comparisons) within the parameters of education outcomes and student resilience.
Build a Positive Learners Mindset
Resilience Survey data is invaluable for class teachers, enabling them to analyse and understand the key factors for student success, the resilience characteristics of their classes and enabling them better to engage their students as positive learners for improved wellbeing and academic results.
Create student voice
The Resilience Survey is a student voice instrument. It is confidential and respondents remain anonymous. In this way, the Resilience Survey elicits honest answers from students, empowering them to share responsibility for developing and enhancing their own resilience, mental health and wellbeing.
COSTS:
AUD $5+GST per student, per administration.
AUD $8+GST per student, per administration, including access to Gemfinder™.
Gemfinder TM is a powerful new and exclusive feature available in your Reporting Portal. Gemfinder is sophisticated survey analysis software developed over a 4-year partnership with our colleagues at the University of South Australia and Kings College London. Gemfinder generates on demand the statistically meaningful drivers of mental health and wellbeing for your students, leading to a targeted and cohort specific wellbeing response.
TEST DRIVE:
To test drive the survey and client portal including Gemfinder, please click here.
™ ‘Gemfinder’ is a Registered Trademark of Resilient Youth Australia Pty Ltd.