Journal
JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH
Volume 69, Issue 2, Pages 211-225Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2009.09.006
Keywords
Coping; Marital stress; Measures; Social stress; Stressors; Work stress
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- National Research Fund (OTKA) [OTKA K73754]
- Healthcare Scientific Committee (ETT) [100/2006]
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A comprehensive assessment of psychosocial stress often poses significant challenges due to diversity in conceptualization of stress. Consequently, a number of instruments that measure psychosocial stress, its stressors, and its impact at the individual, organizational, and societal levels have been developed. This article aims to provide a brief review of such instruments, focusing on established questionnaire and interview measures in line with the environmentalist and psychological conceptualizations of stress. This includes measures of major life events; work, marital, and social stress; the individual's coping abilities; and psychological and somatic outcomes of stress. We provide a general description of selected instruments and discuss their administration, scoring, and psychometric properties. Appropriate application of these instruments in epidemiological and clinical research, as well as in inpatient care, can aid the detection of psychosocial stress, support thorough assessment and management of the individual's illness, and ensure accurate identification of individuals who would benefit from specific behavioral (psychotherapeutic) interventions. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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