Open AccessEducational Stress Scale for Adolescents
Author(s) -
Jiandong Sun,
Michael P. Dunne,
XiangYu Hou,
Aiqiang Xu
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of psychoeducational assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1557-5144
pISSN - 0734-2829
DOI - 10.1177/0734282910394976
Subject(s) - psychology , worry , confirmatory factor analysis , clinical psychology , scale (ratio) , reliability (semiconductor) , psychometrics , internal consistency , variance (accounting) , stress (linguistics) , structural equation modeling , test (biology) , concurrent validity , developmental psychology , anxiety , statistics , psychiatry , power (physics) , physics , accounting , philosophy , quantum mechanics , paleontology , business , biology , linguistics , mathematics
This article describes the development and initial validation of a new instrument to measure academic stress—the Educational Stress Scale for Adolescents (ESSA). A series of cross-sectional questionnaire surveys were conducted with more than 2,000 Chinese adolescents to examine the psychometric properties. The final 16-item ESSA contains five latent variables: Pressure from study, Workload, Worry about grades, Self-expectation, and Despondency, which together explain 64% of the total item variance. Scale scores showed adequate internal consistency, 2-week test–retest reliability, and satisfactory concurrent validity. A confirmatory factor analysis suggested the proposed factor model fits well in a different sample. For researchers who have a particular interest in academic stress among adolescents, the ESSA promises to be a useful tool
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