Open AccessStressful life events among adolescents: The development of a new measure
Author(s) -
Shilpa Aggarwal,
Col H R A Prabhu,
L. Anand,
Lt Col Atul Kotwal
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.33255
Subject(s) - cbcl , psychology , checklist , child behavior checklist , scale (ratio) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , cognitive psychology
Adolescence can be a stressful time for children, parents and adults who work with teens. We believe that a scale measuring the events perceived as stressful by an average Indian adolescent is necessary due to the presence of irrelevant items and absence of items related to our culture on foreign scales.