The Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adults (Adult STRAIN) in German: An overview and initial validation

Life stress is a key determinant of poor mental and physical health, but until recently no instrument existed for efficiently assessing cumulative stress exposure and severity across the entire lifespan. The Stress and Adversity Inventory (STRAIN) is an online, interview-based stress assessment syst...

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Vydáno v:PloS one Ročník 14; číslo 5; s. e0216419
Hlavní autoři: Sturmbauer, Sarah C., Shields, Grant S., Hetzel, Eva-Luca, Rohleder, Nicolas, Slavich, George M.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: United States Public Library of Science 09.05.2019
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Témata:
Adolescent
Adult
Adults
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Analysis
Anxiety
Biological stress
Biology and Life Sciences
Care and treatment
Child development
Depression
Exposure
Female
Germany
Health
Health psychology
Humans
Internet
Interviews
Life span
Life span (Biology)
Male
Medicine and Health Sciences
Memory
Men
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Mental health
Middle Aged
Neurosis
On-line systems
People and Places
Personality
Psychological aspects
Research and Analysis Methods
Risk factors
Signs and symptoms
Social Sciences
Strain
Stress
Stress (physiology)
Stress (Psychology)
Stress, Psychological
Surveys and Questionnaires
Teenagers
Translation (Languages)
Translations
Women
Germany
United States > US
California
ISSN:1932-6203, 1932-6203
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Shrnutí:Life stress is a key determinant of poor mental and physical health, but until recently no instrument existed for efficiently assessing cumulative stress exposure and severity across the entire lifespan. The Stress and Adversity Inventory (STRAIN) is an online, interview-based stress assessment system that was developed to address this need. We examined the concurrent, predictive, and discriminant validity of a German translation of the STRAIN by administering the instrument, along with several other measures of stress and health, to 298 adults (81 men, 217 women, Mage = 30.3 years). The German STRAIN demonstrated excellent concurrent validity, as evidenced by associations with other instruments assessing early adversity (|rs|≥.62, ps≤.001). It also correlated with instruments assessing recent life event exposure in adulthood (|rs|≥.48, ps≤.001), as well as recent perceived stress (|rs|≥ .25, ps≤.001) and recent chronic stress levels (|rs|≥ .19, ps≤.001). Additionally, the German STRAIN showed strong predictive validity in relation to anxiety symptoms (|rs|≥ .22, ps≤.001) and depressive symptoms (|rs|≥ .33, ps≤.001). Finally, the German STRAIN showed good discriminant validity, with lifetime stressor count being unrelated to personality features like neuroticism. These results demonstrate that the German version of the STRAIN is a valid tool for assessing lifetime stress exposure and severity. Additional research is needed to examine how the German STRAIN predicts psychological and biological stress reactivity and physical health outcomes.
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0216419