The College Life Stress Inventory Discussion What are your thoughts on the College Life Stress Inventory? (See module notes.) Do you agree or disagree with
The College Life Stress Inventory Discussion What are your thoughts on the College Life Stress Inventory? (See module notes.) Do you agree or disagree with any of the listed sources or their ratings? What do you think colleges could do better to help students address the heightened stress experienced during this developmental period?I am going to attach the Inventor 11:209
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Common Sources of Stress
Table 11-1 COLLEGE LIFE STRESS INVENTORY
Copy the “stress rating” number into the column titled “Your Items” for any item that has happened to you in the last year, and then add these
numbers for your total.
Event
Stress Ratings Your Items Event
Stress Ratings Your Items
Being raped
100
Lack of sleep
69
Finding out that you are HIV positive
100
Change in housing situation
Being accused of rape
98
(hassles, moves)
69
Death of a close friend
97
Competing or performing in public
69
Death of a close family member
96
Getting in a physical fight
66
Contracting a sexually transmitted
Difficulties with a roommate
66
disease (other than AIDS)
94
Job changes (applying, new job,
Concerns about being pregnant
91
work hassles)
65
Finals week
90
Declaring a major or having concerns
65
Concerns about your partner
about future plans
being pregnant
90
A class you hate
62
Oversleeping for an exam
89
Drinking or use of drugs
61
Flunking a class
89
Confrontations with professors
60
Having a boyfriend or girlfriend
Starting a new semester
58
cheat on you
85
Going on a first date
57
Ending a steady dating relationship
85
Registration
55
Serious illness in a close friend or
Maintaining a steady dating relationship 55
family member
85
Commuting to campus or work, or both 54
Financial difficulties
84
Peer pressures
53
Writing a major term paper
83
Being away from home for the first time 53
Being caught cheating on a test
83
Getting sick
52
Drunk driving
82
Concerns about your appearance
52
Sense of overload in school or work
82
Getting straight A’s
51
Two exams in one day
80
A difficult class that you love
48
Cheating on your boyfriend or girlfriend 77
Making new friends, getting along
Getting married
76
with friends
47
Negative consequences of drinking
Attending a fraternity or sorority “rush” 47
or drug use
75
Falling asleep in class
40
Depression or crisis in your best friend
73
Attending an athletic event
Difficulties with parents
73
(e.g., football game)
20
Talking in front of a class
72
Total
Source: From “A Life-Stress Instrument for Classroom Use” by M. J. Renner & R. S. Mackin, Teaching of Psychology, 25(1), p. 47. Copyright © 1998 by Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates. Reprinted by permission of Copyright Clearance Center on behalf of the Publisher.
Coping with Stress in Colleg
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Plan ahead.
Exercise.
• Take a study break.
Talk to other people.
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