ASSESSMENT & evaluation
INTRODUCTION
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If you would like to have your Stress, Anxiety, Deppression. or Personality test done, Please contact info@hcsm.co.za.
Listed below are the tests, and details pertinent to the tests.
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PRIVACY
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DISCAIMER
The HCSM quizzes and self-assessments offered here are for educational, informational and for the determination of trends. They are provided without any guarantee of accuracy or validity. Only a trained medical professional, such as a doctor or mental health professional, can accurately diagnose mental health conditions. These assessments are designed to help you assess your well-being and determine if you may benefit from a consultation with a professional.
DASS42
Full Name: Depression, Anxiety & Stress Test
No of Questions: 42
DEPRESSION ANXIETY STRESS SCALES – LONG FORM (DASS-42)
The DASS-42 is a 42 item self-report scale designed to measure the negative emotional states of depression, anxiety and stress. It is the long version of the DASS-21. It is a useful tool for routine outcome monitoring and can be used to assess the level of treatment response.
VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY
The DASS-42 was developed by Lovibond and Lovibond (1995) using a sample of responses from the comparison of 504 sets of results from a trial by students.
The assessment was then normed on a sample of 1044 males and 1870 females aged between 17 and 69 years, across participants of varying backgrounds, including university students, nurses in training and blue and white collared employees of a major airline, bank, railway workshop and naval dockyard. The scores were subsequently checked for validity against outpatient groups including patients suffering from anxiety and depressive disorders, insomniacs, myocardial infarction patients, as well as patients undergoing treatment for sexual, menopausal and depressive disorders. While the test was not normed against samples younger than 17, due to the simplicity of language it can be used in people as young as 12.
The mean scores in the normative sample varied slightly between genders as well as varying by age, though the threshold scores for classifications do not change by these variations. For full psychometric information please purchase the DASS manual at http://www2.psy.unsw.edu.au/groups/dass/order.htm.
DEVELOPER
Lovibond, S.H.; Lovibond, P.F. (1995). Manual for the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (2nd ed.). Sydney: Psychology Foundation (Available from The Psychology Foundation, Room 1005 Mathews Building, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia References DASS-42 manual at http://www2.psy.unsw.edu.au/groups/dass/order.htm
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The DASS42 test is in the Public Domain - https://www.physio-pedia.com/Depression_Anxiety_Stress_Scale
AWS
Full Name: ARDELL WELLNESS STRESS TEST
No of Questions: 25
ARDELL WELLNESS STRESS TEST
Too many stress factors not managed well can cause health and other troubles ranging from misery to ruin. My stress test, a self-assessment tool, is a self-report instrument intended for personal insights. It is not, of course, a test in any technical sense. Unlike a true test, it is not validated against a criterion or otherwise in accord with standards for scientific rigor.
Among humans, there are major individual differences in how people respond to and manage stressors at different times under varied circumstances. What stresses you might delight me and vice-versa. People thrive with and also suffer from stress in their lives. Any test that raises awareness and thus helps fewer suffer and more thrive seems a good thing.
This wellness stress test is a consciousness-raising, self-assessment life satisfaction survey. Stress can be serious when present to excess. Anyone working with an individual in a wellness setting might consider the self-assessment and interpretation that follows as an aide, useful for exploring issues and concerns in greater depth toward the goal of positive resolutions.
The Ardell Wellness Stress Test remains popular to this day, particularly at university wellness centers and health promotion courses.
The "Ardell Wellness Stress Test" then and now incorporates physical, mental, emotional, "spiritual" (i.e., meaning and purpose) and social aspects of health. This is one reason many users report finding the test useful - it offers a balanced assessment of varied stress sources.
Donald B. Ardell
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HRLS
Full Name: THE HOLMES-RAHE LIFE STRESS INVENTORY
No of Questions: 43
THE HOLME AND RAHE STRESS SCALE
The Holmes and Rahe stress scale is a list of 43 stressful life events that can contribute to illness. The scale is used to help identify whether a person is experiencing a high amount of stress.
HISTORY
The Holmes and Rahe stress scale was developed in 1967 by psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe while working at the University of Washington. The scale was based on a study of over 5,000 medical patients who were asked to rate the life-changing events they had experienced in the previous two years.
They originally designed the scale to be used in research to help identify possible links between stress and illness.
Since its inception, the Holmes and Rahe stress scale has been widely used by healthcare professionals. It is one of the most well-known and researched tools for measuring stress.
However, it is essential to remember that the scale is only meant to be used as a guide and that other factors, such as a person's individual stress tolerance, can also affect their risk for illness.
The Holmes and Rahe stress scale can be self-administered, or it can be administered by a healthcare professional. To complete the test you will need to recall the stressful events that have occurred in your life over the past year. For each event, you will need to note the date it occurred and the number of points it is worth. Once you have all of this information, you can add up your total score to get an idea of your overall stress level.
GENERAL
The Holmes and Rahe stress scale is a widely used tool that can be helpful in identifying people who are at an increased risk for developing an illness. The scale can also be used to help design interventions to reduce stress levels. While the scale is not perfect, it can be a useful tool for both health care professionals and individuals.
NOTE
• The scale should be used in conjunction with other information, such as a person's medical history, to make a more accurate assessment.
• The scale should be used as a tool to help identify people who are at an increased risk for developing an illness. It should not be used to make a diagnosis.
• The scale can be used to help design interventions to reduce stress levels.
Remember, the scale should be used as a tool to help identify people who are at an increased risk for developing an illness. It should not be used to make a diagnosis.
If you are concerned about your stress level, talk to your doctor or a mental health professional. They can help you develop a plan to reduce your stress and improve your overall health.
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The HRLS test is free to use.
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CBI
Full Name: THE COPENHAGEN BURNOUT INVENTORY
No of Questions: 19
The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI; Kristensen, et al., 2005) was developed to measure burnout in different domains.
The 19-item CBI contains three sub-dimensions inspired by previous measures:
Personal burnout,
work-related burnout, and
client-related burnout.
The three separate parts of the questionnaire were designed to be applied in different domains. In the CBI, the core of burnout is fatigue and exhaustion. The questions on personal burnout were formulated in a way so that all human beings can answer them.
The work-related burnout questions assume that the respondent has paid work of some kind. The scale on client burnout is only defined for those respondents who worked with clients. Two five response options are utilized, one for intensity and the other for frequency.
The authors concluded that the analyses indicate very satisfactory reliability and validity for the CBI instrument. They also indicated that it is available for use in a number of countries in several different languages.
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BIG 5
Full Name: THE BIG 5 PERSONALITY TEST
No of Questions: 50
The Big Five personality traits is a suggested grouping for personality traits, developed from the 1980s onward in psychological trait theory.
Starting in the 1990s, the theory identified five factors by labels, for the US English speaking population, typically referred to as:
• openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious)
• conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. extravagant/careless)
• extraversion (outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved)
• agreeableness (friendly/compassionate vs. critical/rational)
• neuroticism (sensitive/nervous vs. resilient/confident)
Development
The Big Five personality traits was the model to comprehend the relationship between personality and academic behaviors. This model was defined by several independent sets of researchers who used factor analysis of verbal descriptors of human behavior. These researchers began by studying relationships between a large number of verbal descriptors related to personality traits. They reduced the lists of these descriptors by 5–10 fold and then used factor analysis to group the remaining traits (using data mostly based upon people's estimations, in self-report questionnaire and peer ratings) in order to find the underlying factors of personality.
The initial model was advanced by Ernest Tupes and Raymond Christal in 1961,[12] but failed to reach an academic audience until the 1980s. In 1990, J.M. Digman advanced his five-factor model of personality, which Lewis Goldberg extended to the highest level of organization. These five overarching domains have been found to contain and subsume most known personality traits and are assumed to represent the basic structure behind all personality traits.
At least four sets of researchers have worked independently within lexical hypothesis in personality theory for decades on this problem and have identified generally the same five factors. These four sets of researchers used somewhat different methods in finding the five traits, and thus each set of five factors has somewhat different names and definitions. However, all have been found to be highly inter-correlated and factor-analytically aligned.
Each of the Big Five personality traits contains two separate, but correlated, aspects reflecting a level of personality below the broad domains but above the many facet scales that are also part of the Big Five. The aspects are labeled as follows:
- Volatility and Withdrawal for Neuroticism;
- Enthusiasm and Assertiveness for Extraversion;
- Intellect and Openness for Openness to Experience;
- Industriousness and Orderliness for Conscientiousness;
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