Academic Stress Scale (Sun, Dunne, Hou & Xu)
EducationReliability: alpha 0.873 sample items
About this scale
A 16-item measure of academic stress in students across five sources: study pressure, workload, worry about grades, self-expectation, and despondency.
Sample item(s)
“The pressure of study makes me feel breathless (pressure)”
“I am too worried about exams and tests (worry)”
“Continual worry about studies causes me to lose sleep (despondency)”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.87. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Free for academic use.
Source & citation
Sun, J., Dunne, M. P., Hou, X. Y., & Xu, A. Q. (2011): Educational stress scale for adolescents: Development, validity, and reliability with Chinese students. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 534–546.
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