Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
Primary Reference:
Cohen, S., Kamarck, T., & Mermelstein, R. (1983). A global measure of perceived stress. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 24, 385-396.
Purpose: To assess the degree to which people perceive their lives as stressful. High levels of stress are associated with poor self-reported health, elevated blood pressure, depression, and susceptibility to infection.
Description: Subjects indicate how often they have found their lives unpredictable, uncontrollable, and overloaded in the last month.
Scaling: 0 = Never; 1 = Almost Never; 2 = Sometimes; 3 = Fairly often; 4 = Very often
# Items: 10
Sample Items:
“In the last month, how often have you been upset because of something the happened unexpectedly?” “In the last month, how often have you felt nervous and “stressed”?”
Psychometrics:
Reliability: alpha = .78
Validity: Correlates in a predicted way with other measure of stress
(Job Responsibilities Scale, life events scales).
Scoring:
Reversed Items: 4, 5, 7, 8
Total Perceived Stress: Sum Items: 1, 2, 3, 4R, 5R, 6. 7R, 8R, 9, 10
Variable Names:
pss_tot: Total Perceived Stress Score
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