PSS
Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is a psychological tool that assesses the level of stress perceived by an individual over the past month. It is used to detect how life situations are appraised as stressful, which can help with stress management and with monitoring therapeutic interventions.
- Number of questions
- 10 questions
- Estimated duration
- 2 minutes
- Language
- English
- Original name
- Perceived Stress Scale
- Authors
- Sheldon Cohen, Tom Kamarck, Robin Mermelstein (1983)
- Category
- Stress
Preview of the 10 questions
Scoring & interpretation
Participants rate the extent to which they have experienced certain events as stressful on a Likert scale from 0 (never) to 4 (very often). Total scores are calculated by reversing the scores for questions 4, 5, 7 and 8 and adding up all the values.
Usage
This tool is not available on Mentaal. To access this questionnaire, please visit the website of the official distributor, Mapi Research Trust, and submit a request on ePROVIDE™
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