Scale
name: College Student Stress Scale
Scale
overview: The
College Student Stress Scale is an 11-item self-report assessment of college
students’ response to items about distress, feeling anxious, or questioning
their ability.
Response
Type: Items are
rated on a scale of frequency of occurrence from 1 = Never to 5 = Very Often.
Scale instructions and items
For the following items, report how often each has occurred
this semester using the following scale
|
Never |
Rarely |
Sometimes |
Often |
Very Often |
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
Examples (See the reference for the wording of the 11
items.)
Item 1. asks
about personal relationships
Item 2. asks
about family
Reliability: Cronbach’s alpha = .87 in a sample
of 185 college students (Feldt & Koch, 2011)
Validity: Findings from a follow-up study
revealed strong convergent validity with the Perceived Stress Scale (r = .80). The authors also reported “Zero-order coefficients
of correlation indicated that the CSSS total score is significantly correlated
with neuroticism (large effect size) and also test anxiety and self-efficacy
for learning and performance (both medium effect size)” (Feldt & Koch, 2011)
Availability:
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text of the scale is available on PsycTESTS
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References
for the scale
Feldt, R. C. (2008). College Student Stress Scale [Database
record]. Retrieved from PsycTESTS. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/t07526-000
Feldt, R. C., & Koch, C. (2011). Reliability and
Construct Validity of the College Student Stress Scale. Psychological
Reports, 108(2), 660–666. https://doi.org/10.2466/02.08.13.16.PR0.108.2.660-666
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