Measures and correlates of resilience.

Objective: We collected data on several aspects of resilience and related them to personal perceptions of breast cancer risk and worry about cancer.

Methods: As part of an ongoing series of studies to examine women's needs for and responses to breast cancer risk counseling, women with a family history of breast cancer (n = 357) completed questionnaires as part of their ongoing follow-up for counseling interventions. The questionnaire contained several measures of resilience: Optimism, the Life Attitude Profile-Revised, and single item scales measuring the worst to best possible life for past, present and future time periods.