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Adolescent Stress & Its Treatment

hen assessing stress among teens. It was concluded that results lend support to the use of both stimulus- and cognitive-oriented models in constructing and scoring measures of adolescent stress.

However, there are indications that instruments which merely measure the stressful experiences in an adolescents life are inadequate indicators of the adolescent stress process. The dubiousness of these instruments can be seen in a very comprehensive study of adolescent stress conducted by Kub (1992). In Kub's (1992) research the sample consisted of 705 adolescents and their mothers who participated in a longitudinal epidemiological study of the Woodlawn community in 1966 and again ten years later. The major independent variables in the study were: chronic stressors (poverty status, mother's mental health, family structure), life events, interpersonal stressors with teachers, parents, friends, friends of the opposite sex and social support resources (family satisfaction, family involvement, confiding in adults in family, peer involvement).

The major dependent variables of this study were symptoms of anxiety, depression and anger, each of which was said to be an indicator of stress. Symptoms were operationalized on the basis of self report data collected from the adolescents.

The results of this study indicated that gender is of importance in identifying which stressors and resources are predictive of anxiety, depression and anger as indicators of stress and that the predictors also vary depending upon the specific outcome. Furthermore, Kub (1992) stated that the research supported the notion that the stress process is complex and consists not only of the experience of life events but also includes the experience of varying types of stressors and resources which can be viewed from a developmental perspective.

Regarding this developmental perspective, Kub (1992) reported that:

The study indicates the importance of ea...

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