Stress

Coping strategies

• Lazarus, R. S., & Folkman, S. (1984). Stress, appraisal and coping. New York: Springer. This is the Ways of Coping Questionnaire.
• Long, B.C. (1990). Relation between coping strategies, sex-typed traits, and environmental characteristics: A comparison of male and female managers. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 37, 185-194. This is a modified version of the Ways of Coping Questionnaire that is more specific to the work context.

General Health

• Goldberg, D. (1978). Manual of the General Health Questionnaire. Windsor, England: National Foundation for Educational Research. 12 items to determine general mental health of psychological distress.
  • Used in Bond, Frank W.; Flaxman, Paul E.; Bunce, David. 2008. The influence of psychological flexibility on work redesign: Mediated moderation of a work reorganization intervention. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(3):645-654. Cronbach's alphas= Trial 1 (.86), Trial 2 (.85).

Just stressors

• Ivancevich, J. M., & Matteson, M. T. (1983). Stress Diagnostic Survey. Houston, TX: Stress Research Systems.

Just strains or burnout

• Pines A, Aronson E, Kafry D. (1981). Burn Out: From Tedium to Personal Growth. New York, NY: The Free Press.

Stressors and strain

• Spector, P. E., & Jex, S. M. (1998). Developmental of four self-report measures of job stressors and strain: Interpersonal conflict at work scale, organizational constraints scale, quantitative workload inventory, and physical symptoms inventory. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 3, 356-367.
• Caplan, R.D.; Cobb, S.; French, J.R.P.; Van Harrison, R. & Pinneau, S.R. (1980). Job demands and worker health. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research.

State Anxiety

• Bell, Brandford, S. and Kozlowski, Steve W.J. 2008. Active learning: Effects of core training design elements on self-regulatory processes, learning, and adaptability. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(2):296-316. Used 5 items drawn from Deci and Ryan's Intrinsic Motivation Inventory. Ryan, R. M., Koestner, R., & Deci, E. L. (1991). Varied forms of persistence: When free-choice behavior is not intrinsically motivated. Motivation and Emotions, 15, 185–205.

Trait Anxiety

• Spielberger, C. D. (1983). Manual for the State–Trait Anxiety Inventory. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press. Widely used, extensively validated measure of trait anxiety
  • Used in Bell, Brandford, S. and Kozlowski, Steve W.J. 2008. Active learning: Effects of core training design elements on self-regulatory processes, learning, and adaptability. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(2):296-316. Used 20 item subset of the items in the inventory. Cronbach's alpha=.91

Social Support

• I. Sarason, B. Sarason, E. Shearin and G. Pierce, A brief measure of social support: practical and theoretical implications, J. Soc. Pers. Relatsh. 4 (1987), pp. 497–510.
• Vinokur, A. D., Vanryn, M., 1993 Social Support and Undermining in Close Relationships: Their Independent Effects on the Mental Health of Unemployed Persons Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 65(2): 350–359
• Vinokur, A. D., Price, R. H., & Caplan, R. D. (1996). Hard times and hurtful partners: How financial strain affects depression and relationship satisfaction of unemployed persons and their spouses. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 166–179.
• Caplan RD, Cobb S, French JRP, Harrison R, Pinneau SR. Job demands and worker health (NIOSH publication no. 75-160). Washington, DC: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1980.