Resilience is defined as the ability to recover from stress. However, all 
resilience measures with exception of the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) assess 
resources that make resilience possible instead of recovery. The purpose of this 
study was to translate the BRS to Spanish and to analyze the reliability and 
validity of its scores. The psychometric properties of its scores were examined 
in a heterogeneous sample of 620 Spanish adults. Confirmatory factor analyses 
were carried out to study its scores' evidence of structural validity. Besides, 
to study its scores' evidence of convergent, discriminant, and predictive 
validity in relation to other resilience questionnaires (Connor Davidson 
Resilience Scale 10-item version, Situated Subjective Resilience Questionnaire 
for Adults and Resiliency Questionnaire for Adults) and to variables such as 
emotions (Modified Differential Emotions Scale), coping (Person-situation Coping 
Questionnaire for Adults), anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and 
Depression Scale), posttraumatic growth (Posttraumatic Growth Inventory), 
perceived stress (Perceived Stress Scale) and posttraumatic stress (Davidson 
Trauma Scale), correlation and regression analyses were conducted. To study its 
sensitivity, we assessed the effect of sociodemographics and the ability of the 
scale to identify high-risk populations by conducting analyses of variance and 
Pearson correlations. The BRS scores showed adequate reliability (α = .83; 
intraclass coefficient = .69). Confirmatory factor analyses showed that the 
Spanish version of the BRS is mono-factorial (χ2/df = 2.36; standardized root 
mean square residual = .036; goodness-of-fit index = .980; comparative fit index 
= .984; incremental fit index = .984; root mean square error of approximation = 
.067). They also showed adequate evidence of the scores' convergent, concurrent 
and predictive validity. The Spanish version of the BRS is a reliable and valid 
means to assess resilience as the ability to bounce back. (PsycINFO Database 
Record