DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF STUDENTS STRESS DIMENSION QUESTIONNAIRE (SSDQ)

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Volume : VI, Issue : VII, July - 2016

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF STUDENTS STRESS DIMENSION QUESTIONNAIRE (SSDQ)

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Abstract :

 This article describes the process of development and standardization of the Students Stress Dimension Questionnaire (SSDQ) for Assessing Stress on a sample of 510 University Students of different faculties aged 18 to 35. Initially a 100–item scale was prepared based on ‘0‘ “1” and ‘2‘ format (where 0=never, 1=sometimes, 2=very often or frequently). In the testing process, 7 questions i.e q50,q53, q55, q56, q63,q64,q65 were found to be non–significant on t–test for equality of means(p–value >0.05) and were dropped leaving 93 items to form the final form of the SSDQ. Further, it was found to have high split–half reliability and adequate internal consistency (Chronbachs alpha 0.865)