Affective stress responses during leisure time: Validity evaluation of a modified version of the Stress-Energy Questionnaire
| Autor: | Åsa Lundgren-Nilsson, Anna Grimby-Ekman, Emina Hadžibajramović, Carita Håkansson, Gunnar Ahlborg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Rasch model Psychometrics Work (physics) Stressor Leisure time Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Reproducibility of Results Construct validity General Medicine Middle Aged Affect (psychology) Affect Leisure Activities Surveys and Questionnaires Stress (linguistics) Humans Female Energy Metabolism Psychology Stress Psychological Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 43:825-832 |
| ISSN: | 1651-1905 1403-4948 |
| Popis: | Background: Psychosocial stress at work is one of the most important factors behind increasing sick-leave rates. In addition to work stressors, it is important to account for non-work-related stressors when assessing stress responses. In this study, a modified version of the Stress-Energy Questionnaire (SEQ), the SEQ during leisure time (SEQ-LT) was introduced for assessing the affective stress response during leisure time. The aim of this study was to investigate the internal construct validity of the SEQ-LT. A second aim was to define the cut-off points for the scales, which could indicate high and low levels of leisure-time stress and energy, respectively. Methods: Internal construct validity of the SEQ-LT was evaluated using a Rasch analysis. We examined the unidimensionality and other psychometric properties of the scale by the fit to the Rasch model. A criterion-based approach was used for classification into high and low stress/energy levels. Results: The psychometric properties of the stress and energy scales of the SEQ-LT were satisfactory, having accommodated for local dependency. The cut-off point for low stress was proposed to be in the interval between 2.45 and 3.02 on the Rasch metric score; while for high stress, it was between 3.65 and 3.90. The suggested cut-off points for the low and high energy levels were values between 1.73–1.97 and 2.66–3.08, respectively. Conclusions: The stress and energy scale of the SEQ-LT satisfied the measurement criteria defined by the Rasch analysis and it provided a useful tool for non-work-related assessment of stress responses. We provide guidelines on how to interpret the scale values. |
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