The assessment of stress in adolescents : development of a stress inventory /
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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1988.
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| Online Access: | ProQuest, Abstract Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Abstract: | The present investigation was an exploratory study to develop an assessment instrument, the Children's Personality Profile (CPP), in which Stress was proposed as a subscale to be distinguished from anxiety and depression. A pilot study was undertaken initially to assess content for such a scale. Item/total-test score point-biserial correlations were computed. Items were deleted based on results. An initial assessment was conducted with 658 adolescents, aged 12 to 19, in a suburban school district. Factor analyses yielded results indicating that the three factors, S tress, Anxiety, and Depression, retained moderate intercorrelations but could be differentiated. Alpha reliability estimates were .88, .88, and .90, respectively, for each factor. A second data collection was undertaken, again with suburban adolescents. Included also was a sample of special education students, including learning disabled, emotionally disturbed-self-contained, and emotionally disturbed-resource placement. MANOVAs followed by one-way ANOVAs and Duncan's new multiple range tests indicated significant gender differences, with females scoring higher than males on most of the maladaptive scales, Including Stress. Results also Indicated significant differences in regular education and special education students as well as grade differences. Results of the MANOVA comparing 41 students nominated by their peers as highly stressed and a matched random sample indicated no significant differences except on the Interpersonal Relations scale. Regular education teachers rated a sample of students who scored significantly high or significantly low on the Stress scale. The single significant correlation to Stress was Somatic Complaints. Results when special education teachers rated their emotionally disturbed students were dramatically different, with Stress significantly correlated to Anxiety. When the scales of the CPP were correlated with each other, Stress was moderately and significantly correlated with Anxiety and Depression, a finding very much in keeping with the literature. IQ correlations yielded significant correlations with Stress. Results of the present investigation are promising for the development of Stress as a subscale of the CPP with further investigation needed for predictive validity. |
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| Item Description: | Typescript (photocopy). Vita. "Major subject: School Psychology." |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 230 leaves ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-175). |