Stress

Measures that are relevant to the stress process including conditions and events, coping and support. Traumatic stress is included. Work-related measures, such as job stressors and strains, are in our companion site.

Control

• Perceived control. Lachman & Weaver 1998, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Subscales of Constraints and Mastery.
• Perceived control. Wanberg et al. 2020 Journal of Applied Psychology. Single score, based on Lachman & Weaver 1998.

Coping

• Proactive Coping Inventory. By Greenglass et al. 1999. Has seven subscales.

Family Stress

The COVID-19 Family Stressor Scale. Prime et al., 2021, PsyArXiv Preprints. Overall score plus subscales of income, chaos, and family. Could be modified for use in other times of personal or societal crisis.

Life Stress

• Event Characteristics Questionnaire ECQ. Luhmann et al. 2020,  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Assesses 9 characteristics of events in life that goes beyond just whether they occurred..
• Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory. List of stressful events and their stress level. Explanation and scoring here.
• Perceived Stress Scale PSS. Cohen et al. 1983, Journal of Health and Social Behavior. General perceived stress in life.
• Relative deprivation. Callan et al. 2011, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Table 2.
• Role Stressors. Adapter by Graeme Coetzer, 2016, special autism issue Journal of Business and Management. Based on role ambiguity, conflict and overload from the organizational literature.
• Situational Eight DIAMONDS, S8. Rauthmann & Sherman 2015, European Journal of Psychological Assessment. Characteristics of situations along 8 dimensions–the situational 8: Duty, Intellect, Adversity, Mating, pOsitivity, Negativity, Deception, Sociality.

Social Support

• Berlin Social Support Scales. By Schwarzer & Schulz, 2000. Scales for available support, need for support, and received support..,

Technology Stress

• Cyberbullying Test. Garaigordobil 2017.
• Cyber incivility. Heischman et al. 2019.
• Technostress. Chen 2015. Refinement of Tarafdar 2007 measure in China.
• Technostress. Tarafdar et al. 2007. Five subscales: Techno-Overload, Techno-Invasion, Techno-Complexity, Techno-Insecurity, Techno-Uncertainty.

Traumatic Stress

• Measures of PTSD. Several measures from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.