Teen stress test

The teen stress test below

is for teenagers and to some extend also children. I generally do not encourage parents to try the test with a child, because it is impossible to recognize stress in another person.

Instead I would recommend that you seek out a pediatrician or maybe a child psychologist if you are in any way worried about your child.

If you want to, it is interesting to compare the events in the teen stress test with the ones in the adult stress test. Look how different they are.

And also try and look at the factor: the factor is how important the event (to the left) is. So if an adult loses their spouse (the husband or wife) it is 100 in stressfulness, for adults this is the most stressful that can happen to them.

If you are a teenager - check out the list below here. You can see that teens actually have two things that can happen to them with a score of 100.

Also look at the very bottom of both lists. For a teenager the lowest factor (or score if you like) is 26, but for an adult it is 11.

This means, that teenagers can be more stressed than their parents. It does not mean that you are, but you have higher factors attached to the events that can come in your life.

Actually, if you do a little math on the numbers you will see, that the teen stress test has a score that is 148% of the adult score. That means that you can be almost one-and-a-half times as stressed as your parent are. Crazy right?

Feel free to try the stress test below, but remember. It is not the end of the world if you are a little stress, everybody feels stressed now and then.

It is a good thing to talk to your parents if you feel stressed out, or if everything just becomes too overwhelming a times. I guarantee you, your parents have felt the same way - and they were also teenagers once!

Teen Stress Test

The test is made in a way that you have to think about the past year of your life. The point is that you try to remember everything that has happened in the past year (yes I know it can be hard) and you then check the "Yes" by every event that has happened to you in the last year.

The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale Test For Teens

Expiriences in the past one year?	Factor	Yes	No
Unwed pregnancy	100
Death of parent	100
Getting married	95
Divorce of parents	90
Acquiring a visible deformity	80
Fathering an unwed pregnancy	70
Jail sentence of parent for over one year	70
Marital separation of parents	69
Death of a brother or sister	68
Change in acceptance by peers	67
Pregnancy of unwed sister	64
Discovery of being an adopted child	63
Marriage of parent to stepparent	63
Death of a close friend	63
Having a visible congenital deformity	62
Serious illness requiring hospitalization	58
Failure of a grade in school	56
Not making an extracurricular activity	55
Hospitalization of a parent	55
Jail sentence of parent for over 30 days	53
Breaking up with boyfriend or girlfriend	53
Beginning to date	51
Suspension from school	50
Becoming involved with drugs or alcohol	50
Birth of a brother or sister	50
Increase in arguments between parents	47
Loss of job by parent	46
Outstanding personal achievement	46
Change in parent's financial status	45
Accepted at college of choice	43
Being a senior in high school	42
Hospitalization of a sibling	41
Increased absence of parent from home	38
Brother or sister leaving home	37
Addition of third adult to family	34
Becoming a full fledged member of a church	31
Decrease in arguments between parents	27
Decrease in arguments with parents	26
Mother or father beginning work	26

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