Stress Management Assessment & Readiness Test


SECTION 6: Flexible Response to Daily Demands

This section will help you determine if you are overly responsive to the distractions and external demands placed on you by the environment. Feeling a sense of control over one's environment is likely to reduce stress. On the other hand, demanding too much control over your environment increases stress. The balance of control over your environment is one key to mastering stress.
 

1.
How effective are you in taking the unexpected stressors in everyday life in stride (traffic, long lines, slow or inefficient sales clerks)?
 
Not at all effective
 
Slightly effective
 
Somewhat effective
 
Quite effective
 
Extremely effective
 

2.
When you are surprised by an additional stressor in an already stressful day, how confident are you that you will be able to handle the situation?
 
Not at all confident
 
Slightly confident
 
Somewhat confident
 
Quite confident
 
Extremely confident
 
3.
If you have planned in advance how you are going to handle your day (filled with things that need to be accomplished) and a friend unexpectedly asks you to spend the day "relaxing together," how likely are you to abandon your original work plan?
 
Extremely likely
 
Somewhat likely
 
Slightly unlikely
 
Somewhat unlikely
 
Extremely unlikely
 
     


Section 1: Goals & Attitudes
Section 2: Realistic Thinking
Section 3: Assertion & Time Management
Section 4: Stress-Busting Behaviors
Section 5: Coping
Section 6: Flexible Response to Daily Demands
   
 

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