Inventory of Stressful Events
Measures Work Stress.
Sample items
- “Another nurse calls you away from important work for a trivial matter”
- “A patient complains to you about the food or other things not under your control”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Motowidlo, S. J., Packard, J. S., Manning, M. R. (1986)
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“Limitations of Conceptual CriteriaConceptual rules of thumb, while useful, can also be misleading in some circumstances. Sometimes a variable that seems conceptually to fit a formative model behaves in some ways as if a reflective model is more appropriate. A case in point is…”
— Scale Developmentmatch 55%
“At that point economic behavior ceases to be rational, because it is no longer guided by the goal that originally justified it. Weber’s argument applies to many other activities that after developing clear goals and rules become autonomous from their original purposes, and begin…”
— Flowmatch 50%
“So what does all this mean? The evidence suggests that even though a tally of stressful life events conceptually points us toward an index, at least some of the indicators may be behaving like a scale. Moreover, those elements may be the ones that primarily account for the…”
— Scale Developmentmatch 47%
Resources: Scale Development · Flow