This article reviews five instruments that measure some aspect of stress. The instruments are: Kindler's Personal Stress Assessment Inventory, Derogatis's Stress Profile, Folkman and Lazarus's Ways of Coping Checklist, Maslach's Burnout Inventory, and Pareek's Organizational Role Stress Scale. These instruments are very different and, therefore, will serve different purposes in communication research. Currently, several of the instruments report that considerable research needs to be done to test the validity and reliability of the instruments in different contexts.
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