NCJ Number
141261
Journal
Journal of Youth and Adolescence Volume: 22 Issue: 1 Dated: (February 1993) Pages: 43-55
Date Published
1993
Length
12 pages
Annotation
Both Inventory of High-School Students' Recent Life Experiences (IHSSRLE), a new decontaminated hassles measure for adolescents, and the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) were administered to 99 high school students and an independent sample of 77 high school students.
Abstract
For both the item-selection subsample and the cross- validation subsample, the IHSSRLE demonstrated adequate internal-consistency reliability and validity against the criterion of subjectively appraised stress. The three items most commonly endorsed by both male and female students were "not enough time to do the things you enjoy most," "too many things to do at once," and "a lot of responsibilities." Female students scored significantly higher than their male counterparts on six of the eight subscales: social alienation, excessive demands, romantic concerns, loneliness and unpopularity, assorted annoyances and concerns, and social mistreatment. The IHSSRLE emerges as an adequately reliable and valid measure and less contaminated with negative well- being than some earlier hassles measures. 4 tables, 33 references, and 1 appendix