Stress & Wellness Assessment (Self Discovery Series)

A certain amount of stress can be healthy. At appropriate levels stress helps to provide motivation to achieve in both your personal and professional life. However too much stress is likely to have a significantly negative impact and can seriously affect your long term wellness.

There are some stressors in your life that you may feel you have no control over. But the good news is that there are also many things you can do to contribute to your own wellness. This instrument has been designed to help you measure seven areas that contribute to a healthy and balanced lifestyle.

By gaining an understanding of your current profile in these key areas you can look at whether making simple changes will help you to reduce the stress in your life and/or cope more effectively with any stressors that are outside your control.

The seven key areas are:

•     Predisposition

•     Physical fitness

•     Nutrition and diet

•     Personal well-being

•     Emotional balance

•     Emotional habits and control

•     Work life

This competency-based self-assessment has been designed to help you understand more about each of these critical areas and give you a picture of your current stress profile. This will help you determine where you could make changes to improve your wellness and overall stress management. A Personal Action Plan is included to help you commit to those changes.

How this instrument is scored

Each category contains 12 statements scored on a five point Likert scale ranging from 'Almost Never' to 'Almost Always'. Aggregate scores are then plotted on a spider diagram to provide a quick visual overview of your Stress & Wellness profile.

Although primarily intended (in its paper format) as a self-assessment the questions have been worded so this tool can also be used for 180 or 360-degree feedback (by purchasing extra copies of this booklet - one for each respondent). An online version is also available which provides automated scoring and a comprehensive output report. Please contact us for more information.