小学生用ストレス反応尺度の開発

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to develop the Stress Response Scale for Children(SRS-C) which measures slight stress responses of elementary school children in a daily school life setting, and to examine its reliability and validity. In study I, after selecting items which state stress responses in school, factor analysis of data by 2,160 children revealed that the SRS-C has four main factors; “physical states”, “depressive-anxlous feeling”, “irritated-angry feeling” and “helplessness”. As a result,the SRS-C including 20 items was developed. In study II, psychometric analyses showed that the SRS-C has enough high reliability by test-retest method and split half method, and from the viewpoint of internal consistency. Furthermore, SRS-C scores were compared among three groups; HS-group which showed high stress responses, LS-group which showed low stress responses, and MS-group which showed moderate stress responses. As results of ANOVAs, it was revealed that SRS-C scores of HS-group were higher than other groups. It was suggested that the SRS-C had high clinical validity, content validity, and construct validity. It was also suggested that the SRS-C had enough possibility to measure slight stress responses of elementary school children. Finally, the significance of measuring stress responses in psychological stress studies and possibilities of clinical application of the SRS-C were discussed.