{"id":1136,"date":"2019-07-25T15:11:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T15:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gamebus.eu\/?page_id=1136"},"modified":"2019-07-25T15:11:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T15:11:49","slug":"stress-level-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.gamebus.eu\/index.php\/stress-level-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress Level Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For a GameBus experiment related to the Eindhoven Marathon 2019, we included a very basic stress logging feature to GameBus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the background materials, we had considered a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysut.org\/~\/media\/files\/nysut\/resources\/2013\/april\/social-services\/socialservices_stressassessments.pdf?la=en\">NYSUT Social Services<\/a>. Essentially, we were looking for a simple holistic measure focussing on a self-assessed stress-level. About that, we found that one of the items from the so-called &#8220;Perceived Stress Scale&#8221; (PSS), is formulated as follows: &#8220;In the last month, how often have you felt nervous and stressed?&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We decided to include that item in our GameBus support, but then with a simple -2,-1,0,+1,+1,+2 scale where -2 was representing the negative situation and +2 the positive one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We then considered that it could be valuable to also include some questions regarding (1) coping with stress and (2) emotional consequences of stress. From the PSS, we therefore selected also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In the last month, how often have you felt that you were unable to control the important things in your life? <\/li><li>In the last month, how often have you been angered because of things that happened that were outside of your control?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, we decided to use the 5-level Likert scale for the sake of simplicity. Furthermore, we reframed all three questions to the level of one week. We therefore ended up with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In the last week, how often have you felt nervous and stressed?<\/li><li>In the last week, how often have you felt that you were unable to control the important things in your life?<\/li><li>In the last week, how often have you been angered because of things that happened that were outside of your control?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The scale for all these questions was then:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>very often: -2<\/li><li>fairly often: -1<\/li><li>sometimes: 0: <\/li><li>almost never: +1<\/li><li>never: +2<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In retrospect, it seems arguably better to reframe &#8220;fairly often&#8221; etc. to specific numbers (e.g., &#8220;less than two times&#8221;) but we decided to stay close to what the psychology research scales prescribed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a GameBus experiment related to the Eindhoven Marathon 2019, we included a very basic stress logging feature to GameBus. As the background materials, we had considered a report by NYSUT Social Services. Essentially, we were looking for a simple holistic measure focussing on a self-assessed stress-level. About that, we found that one of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gamebus.eu\/index.php\/stress-level-monitoring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stress Level Monitoring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gamebus.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gamebus.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gamebus.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gamebus.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gamebus.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gamebus.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gamebus.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gamebus.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gamebus.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}