Stress Management Test

This test takes approximately 20 minutes.
Please try to answer the questions as accurately as possible. This will ensure that the data we are collecting and the feedback you'll be getting are as accurate as possible.
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Background Infomation

1. Are you Male or Female?

2. What is your age? years.

3. Nationality (country of birth):

4. Country, province/state, and city where you live:

5. What is your occupation?

Perceived Stress Scale

Instructions: The questions in this scale ask you about your feelings and thoughts during the last month. In each case, please indicate with a check how often you felt or thought a certain way.

6. In the last month, how often have you felt that you were unable to control the important things in your life?

7. In the last month, how often have you felt confident about your ability to handle your personal problems?

8. In the last month, how often have you felt that things were going your way?

9. In the last month, how often have you felt difficulties were piling up so high that you could not overcome them?

Coping Strategies Scale

Instructions: The following items deal with ways you've been dealing with stress in your life during the past month. Please indicate how much or how frequently you've been doing what each item says. Don't answer on the basis of whether each item seemed to work or not, but on the basis of how frequently you've actually done it.

10. I've been turning to work or other activities to take my mind off things.

11. I've been concentrating my efforts on doing something about the situation I'm in.

12. I've been saying to myself "this isn't real".

13. I've been using alcohol or other drugs to make myself feel better.

14. I've been getting emotional support from others.

15. I've been giving up trying to deal with it.

16. I've been taking action to try to make the situation better.

17. I've been refusing to believe that it has happened.

18. I've been saying things to let my unpleasant feelings escape.

19. I've been getting help and advice from other people.

20. I've been using alcohol or other drugs to help me get through it.

21. I've been trying to see it in a different light, to make it seem more positive.

22. I've been criticizing myself.

23. I've been trying to come up with a strategy about what to do.

24. I've been getting comfort and understanding from someone.

25. I've been giving up on my attempts to cope.

26. I've been looking for something good in what is happening.

27. I've been making jokes about it.

28. I've been doing something to think less about it, like going to the movies, watching TV, reading, daydreaming, sleeping, or shopping.

29. I've been accepting the reality of the fact that it has happened.

30. I've been expressing my negative feelings.

31. I've been trying to find comfort in my religion, or spiritual beliefs.

32. I've been trying to get advice or help from oter people about what to do.

33. I've been learning to live with it.

34. I've been thinking hard about what steps to take.

35. I've been blaming myself for the things that happened.

36. I've been praying or meditating.

37. I've been making fun of the situation.

38. What are the factors that you think influence the way you cope with stressful situations?

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