Profiles of Personal Resiliency for Normative and Clinical Samples of Youth Assessed by the Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents

Survey data were used to determine resiliency profiles of a normative and an outpatient clinical sample of youth. This research examined the background characteristics associated with each profile and compared the profiles of the normative sample to those of the clinical samples. Three profiles were identified for the normative sample and four profiles were found for the outpatient sample. These profiles indicated some differences and some similarities between the two groups. Demographic variables (e.g., gender, parent education) influenced which profiles youth were assigned.