Stress Questionnaire

A stress questionnaire helps measure the amount of stress you are experiencing at a particular time in your life.

Basic Strategies in Stress Management

Stress questionnaires fall into two main types:

• Questionnaires administered by professionals in the health field or professionals in the fields of stress management or counseling
• Self-scoring questionnaires that are taken and scored on your own

There are also different types of questionnaires used to determine the levels of stress caused by stressors of a particular life problem, or situation, such as job loss. Other questionnaires focus on stressors in general.

Examples of stress questionnaires include:

• Some questionnaires gather information about medical problems that may be a factor in a person's source of stress. To view an example of this type of question as given by Dr. Cordas follow this link.
• Caplan’s Job Stress Questionnaire
• The Stress Management Questionnaire written by Dr. James Petersen
• The Occupational Stress Inventory
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Assessment
• Meridian Stress Assessment
• Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire evaluates work stress
• Substance Abuse Questionnaire evaluates a person’s stress handling abilities when he/she is a substance abuser
• Occupational Stress Inventory
• Maslash Burnout Inventory evaluates the stress and burnout possibilities of health care professionals
• Beck Anxiety Inventory

Although professionals mostly administer stress questionnaires, there are some that you can take and score by yourself. Known as self scoring questionnaires, assessments or quizzes, they are meant to be used as an introduction to the issues of stress and the effects it has on the human body.

When self-scoring questionnaires are used as general guidelines they often help people understand what they are feeling or experiencing is due to the chronic stressors in their lives. They are then able to seek professional help if needed or learn to use stress management techniques such as:

• Deep breathing
• Guided imagery
• Yoga
• Meditation
• Progressive muscle relaxation
• Exercise
• Tai chi

• Health Central provides a simple eighteen-question stress test known as Life Stress Test or the Holmes and Rahe Test. The questionnaire evaluates the experiences you have had in the last year of your life. The results are immediately calculated.
• A questionnaire on Life Stress is provided by the Wisconsin Job Center. There are also strategies to use to reduce mental and physical stress.
• Here is a questionnaire with a list of 25 questions to access your level of stress by Solutions 4 Stress. In addition to the questionnaire and the scoring results, the website includes tips on ways to help improve your score.
• David Hompes provides a stress questionnaire that measures adrenal stress levels. According to Mr. Hompes, the possibility of adrenal burnout occurs when your body is constantly producing stress hormones in the adrenal glands. Symptoms of adrenal burnout include:
  • Fatigue
  • Insomnia
  • Irritability
  • Weight gain
  • Mood swings
• Provided by Sweet Briar's Academic Resource Center, are 20 questions to determine the amount of stress experience. Tips for managing stress follows this stress questionnaire.
• The Carole Spiers Group provides ten questions divided into the two following sections:
  • How likely am I to suffer stress?
  • How stressed am I?
• The Internet Health Library provides a questionnaire to determine your vulnerability to stress. As soon as you input the answers to the questions, you receive a general analysis of the results. The seventeen-question assessment is divided into the following sections:
  • Rest and exercise
  • Finances and time management
  • Leisure and lifestyle
  • Communicating
  • Diet
  • Health and fitness

Most online stress questionnaires state that they are not meant to be a diagnosis of your stress levels. They are a guideline or a general overview of your stress levels. They also stress the importance of seeking professional help if your results indicate a need for it.

A stress questionnaire is a useful tool to help determine a person’s stress level.

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