Self-Scoring Stress Questionnaire

HOW STRESSED ARE YOU?

Actors and sports stars use fear to power their best performances. In the same way, pressure can help you excel at work. But too much stress makes you at best ineffective, and at worst physically ill. So how will you cope with stress, and how stressed are you already? Find out with this short questionnaire.

1. How Likely Am I to Suffer Stress?

Read the statements below, and using the scale strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (3), indicate how the statement applies to your perception of yourself.

	1	2	3
I am not in control of the success or failure I make of my life.
I accept that my work has and will change and welcome the opportunities this gives me.
I have someone at work or outside it who I can confide in.
If there's a disagreement about work, I defer to other people's judgement and abilities.
If a project I am working on fails.

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Watch Carole's 6 Top Stress management Tips [1m.55s.]

1. Avoid getting angry over things you can't change
2. Learn how to say 'no' to unreasonable demands
3. Put 20 minutes 'me time' in your diary every day
4. Do 20 minutes exercise [at least] per day
5. Accept the fact that you can't be 'all things to all people'
6. Have one 'arrangement free' weekend every month
… and don't forget to eat healthily!

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2. How Stressed Am I?

Read the statements below, and using the scale rarely (1) to most of the time (3), indicate how the statement applies to your perception of yourself.

	1	2	3
I spend so long at work that my outside relationships are suffering.
I'm so busy I find it increasingly difficult to concentrate on the job in front of me.
I always get a good night's sleep without worrying about work.
Recently I've found it more difficult to control my emotions.
I feel tired during the day.

* "How Likely Am I to Suffer Stress?" section score

* "How Stressed Am I?" section score

Your Results Revealed.

Add up the numbers next to the statements you most agreed with for the first five questions, then do the same for the second five. The higher you score in the first half the more likely you are to suffer stress; the higher you score in the second half, the more stressed you feel. Scores over 10 in either half suggest that you are either prone to experience stress or are feeling stressed at the moment.

Only You Can Say How Stressed You Truly Feel!

This questionnaire has been reproduced with the kind permission of the Association for Science Education - an organisation that specialises in the creation and use of scientifically valid instruments. This questionnaire however does not claim to be such an instrument and has been created from ASE's experience to introduce you to some stress issues. No assumptions, actions or decisions should be based on the results of this questionnaire.

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