Profiles of adolescent stress: The development of the adolescent stress questionnaire (ASQ)

Abstract The importance of stress in the understanding of adolescent health and well-being is widely documented. The measurement of adolescent stress has however been subjected to sufficient methodological and conceptual criticism in recent times to warrant a concerted re-evaluation of the exercise....

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Published in:	Journal of adolescence (London, England.) Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 393 - 416
Main Authors:	Byrne, D.G, Davenport, S.C, Mazanov, J
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01-06-2007 Elsevier Elsevier Science John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects:	Achievement Adolescent Adolescent Development Adolescent stress Adolescents Anxiety Biological and medical sciences Child Health Correlation Depression (Psychology) Developmental psychology Factor Analysis Factor Analysis, Statistical Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Humans Life Change Events Male Measurement Measurement scale Measurement Techniques Measures (Instruments) Mental health Pediatrics Personality. Affectivity Principal Components Analysis Profiles Psychological Patterns Psychology Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Psychometrics Questionnaires Reliability Self Esteem Selfesteem Social Environment Stress Stress Variables Stress, Psychological - psychology Surveys and Questionnaires Teenagers Test Construction Test Items Test Validity Well Being Adolescent stress Measurement scale Human Test validation Questionnaire Evaluation scale Adolescent Psychometrics Test reliability Stress Psychological well being
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Summary:	Abstract The importance of stress in the understanding of adolescent health and well-being is widely documented. The measurement of adolescent stress has however been subjected to sufficient methodological and conceptual criticism in recent times to warrant a concerted re-evaluation of the exercise. This study sought information on the nature of adolescent stressors, building on a previous instrument developed by the first author to ask adolescents themselves to inform the development of a pool of new items reflecting stressor experience and to advise on the wording of these items to comprehensively assess that experience. This pool of items was then administered as a self-reported questionnaire to a large sample of school-age adolescents ( N >1000) together with a scale to assess the intensity of distress arising from stressor occurrence. Principal components analysis of the questionnaire yielded 10 internally reliable dimensions of adolescent stress, the nature of which were consistent with the available literature on adolescent stressor experience. Scales constructed from this PCA related positively to measures of anxiety and depression, and negatively to a measure of self-esteem, suggesting that they were valid measures of adolescent stress. Test–retest reliability was good for all scales. The resultant Adolescent Stress Questionnaire (ASQ) is therefore suggested to have potential for the measurement of adolescent stress in both research and clinical contexts.
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ISSN:	0140-1971 1095-9254
DOI:	10.1016/j.adolescence.2006.04.004