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  • - The study aimed to create and validate a "Stressful Events Inventory" (SEI) using statistical methods on a sample of 6,000 people from Tehran to assess various stress-related factors.
  • - Eleven categories of stressful events were identified, including political issues, neighborhood problems, and family issues, with reliability scores indicating the inventory's effectiveness in measuring stress.
  • - The SEI demonstrated strong psychometric properties, including high validity and reliability, making it a valuable tool for future research in the field of psychosocial stress.

Article Abstract

Development of tools for measuring stress has been considered by mental health researchers for many years. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a "Stressful Events Inventory"(SEI) using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Using a representative sample (n=6000) from all people who reside in Tehran, the validity of the inventory was confirmed by exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, and its reliability was also confirmed by Cronbach's alpha. Eleven major sets of stressful events were identified as follow: political problems (α=0.731), neighborhood's problems (α=0.739), livelihood problems (α=0.609), fear of the future (α=0.663), educational events (α=0.635), educational changes (α=0.704), individual changes (α=0.463), occupational difficulties (α=0.64), housing problems (α=0.69), problems related to occupational relations (α=0.46), and family problems (α=0.69). The value of correlation between the factors was equal to 0.82 and the value of variance determined by these factors was 0.49 (r^2=0.49). In the confirmatory factor analysis, these factors also had an appropriate fitness (RMSEA=0.02). The developed instrument has suitable psychometric properties, which make it appropriate for future research on psychosocial stress.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456433PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.34171/mjiri.34.48DOI Listing

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