+Stress Overload Scale – Short
Amirkhan (2012)
Topic: Mental and Physical Health - Stress
Instructions:
Below, you will find 10 questions about your feelings during the past week. You are to select the rating that best describes how much you felt that particular feeling in the last week. Please be as honest as possible as there are no right or wrong answers.
Items:
IN THE PAST WEEK, have you felt:
- … inadequate?
- … swamped by your responsibilities?
- … that the odds are against you?
- … that there wasn’t enough time to get to everything?
- … like nothing was going right?
- … like you were rushed?
- … like there was no escape?
- … like things kept piling up?
- … like just giving up?
- … like you were carrying a heavy load?
Citation:
Amirkhan, J. H. (2012). Stress overload: A new approach to the assessment of stress. American Journal of Community Psychology, 49(1-2), 55-71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-011-9438-x Links to an external site..
Link to PDF: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1007/s10464-011-9438-x Links to an external site.