Evaluating Stress: A Book of Resources

“Measuring stress is a critical element for designing effective stress‐reduction interventions. Finding the right instrument is a crucial part of this process.” This is the opening paragraph of the introduction to Evaluating Stress. The difficulty in finding the right instrument led the editors, a psychologist and a librarian, to produce this book. A total of 21 instruments are described by people involved in the development of the method. For each of these, information is provided on the history, the underlying assumptions, research, conditions for its use, benefits and limitations, research references and operational references. The contents page is laid out...