AGAIN AND NEW LIFE EVENTS STRESS SCALE DEVELOPMENT STUDY: SCALE DEVELOPMENT AND INITIAL VALIDITY STUDIES

In this study, life events were focused on assuming that life changes represent reasonable conceptual stressors.It is seen that existing measurement tools lose their validity after a while due to the dynamic structure of life and cultural differences.In this direction, it was aimed to develop a new stress scale based on current and life events.Thus, it was considered to use information about individuals' recent and current life events in the form of a self-report checklist for measurement purposes.The study began by writing items asking individuals to evaluate which life events they had recently experienced using short stem descriptors (e.g., change in economic situation...).111 Items were written considering the literature and existing scales.Response options were created in which the items were asked to be scored as percentages between 1 and 100.The items were first applied to 1523 people, 697 male (45.8%) and 826 female (54.2%), aged between 18 and 70 (mean = 26.89,s = 10.47).The number of items was reduced to 50 through item analysis.When the items were ranked in order of importance, the first three items with the highest evaluation were "High cost of living", "Economic environment (inflation, economic crisis, etc.)" and "Death of a close family member".It was determined that the items were evaluated between 38.55% (Repairs, renovations in the apartment, street, neighborhood, etc. environmental and municipal services) and 82.00% (Cost of living) in the whole group, between 37.95% (Minor legal violations such as traffic tickets) and 84.72% (Cost of living) in the female group, and between 36.83% (Repairs, renovations in the apartment, street, neighborhood, etc. environmental and municipal services) and 78.73% (Cost of living) in the male group.