1. What is the PSS intended to measure? Has the scale been validated?

2. What is the GAS intended to measure? Has the scale been validated?

3. Select the worst item you can find from the PSS or the GAS. What do you see as the biggest problem with that item?

4. Following your own advice, rewrite the item you identified in question #3

5. Consider both surveys and whether or not they leave out any important part of the constructs they are intended to measure. Describe what might be missing or weak in at least one of the surveys or subscales.

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