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Measuring stress

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  • The two widely regarded self-report measures of stress are the social readjustment rating scale (SRRS) and the hassles and uplift scale.
    • The SRRS is made-up of 43 items that are ranked on a scale of 1 to 43 with 1 being the most stressful and 43 being the least. Each item represents a stressful life event which is assigned an LCU based on 👥 Holmes and Rahe’s (1967) research.
  • The hassles and uplift scale was developed by 👥 Kanner et al. (1981) and is made up of 117 items all ranked at different levels of causing stress. The severity was measured on a three-point like it like scale. The uplift scale uses the same mythology as the SSRS but uses positive stress reducing events (e.g. getting enough sleep, getting along with your work colleagues).
  • Another measure of physiological stress would be the use of a skin conductance response. This is where electrodes are attached to the index and middle fingers and it detects an increase of sweat and how it links to an increase in conductance which produces readings on a polygraph against a baseline measure of no stress.

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