Toward the standardization of life stress assessment: Definitional discrepancies and inconsistencies in methods
作者:
John R. McQuaid,
Scott M. Monroe,
John R. Roberts,
Sheri L. Johnson,
Gregory L. Garamoni,
David J. Kupfer,
Ellen Frank,
期刊:
Stress Medicine
(WILEY Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 8,
issue 1
页码: 47-56
ISSN:0748-8386
年代: 1992
DOI:10.1002/smi.2460080107
出版商: John Wiley&Sons, Ltd
关键词: Stress;life events;chronic stressors;assessment
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThere has been considerable controversy about methods for assessing life stress. However, self‐report checklists and interview‐based measures (the predominant approaches used in current research) differ in several respects, ranging from basic definitions through theoretical assumptions. Most research comparing these two approaches has focused on global comparisons in predicting disorder, which fail to take into account more specific information on how the methods vary. The present article outlines three stages of assessment for life stress: definition, operationalization, and quantification. Detailed examination of these stages with a sample of depressed patients helps to demonstrate in an explicit manner how self‐report checklists and interview‐based methods differ at successive stages of the measurement process. Data are presented that indicate large endpoint discrepancies attributable to specific differences in the definitional and operational procedures used in the two assessment approaches. The nature of the discrepancies found is discussed, along with the implications for assessing life stress and testing its implications for health and wel
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