Causes of Stress/Measuring Stress - Evaluation (2)

Self-Report Measures:

Strengths:

• Let's the participants record their responses
• Get an understanding of why people are stressed
• Get an insight in to people's experience of stress
• Allows us to asses Psych measures of stress by assessing symptoms but may feel different psychologically

Weaknesses:

• Social desirable answers because they may not want to admit they suffer from stress - socail stigma
• Retrospective measure - relies on memory
• No casual relationships
• Subjective on multiple levels - everyone interprets it differently