Stress Screening Assessment

Your Results

Your Stress score is .

Ardell Wellness Stress Test Interpretation:

Screening test scoring ranges are as follows for your information:

• + 60 to + 75 - You are in a very good place overall, and unlikely to be significantly troubled by stressors on a consistent basis. You have a lot of positive factors in your life which, more than any stress management technique (e.g., deep breathing, meditation and so on), will render you largely immune from the adverse effects of negative emotions in dealing with what life serves up. There are few challenges likely to untrack you from a continuing sense of near well-being so long as your satisfaction level remains as high as indicated in this assessment.
   
• + 36 to + 59 - You are doing well, much better than most. You should find the information available about the wellness concept attractive and consistent with your movement toward effective and healthy living. You already have a well-tuned capacity to deal creatively and efficiently with events and circumstances. Additional advances should come easily for you. All good wishes in moving forward while learning new skills, particularly in areas of critical thinking, the experience of exuberant living, physical fitness and expanding your personal freedoms and choices.
   
• + 20 to + 35 - You have a well-founded appreciation for the importance of lifestyle choices in affecting the quality of your life. You know the value of personal responsibility, a supportive environment and the cumulative positive effects of little changes, over time. In the months to come, invest additional energies in learning ways to strengthen certain areas. You can boost your satisfactions while reducing your stressors.
   
• 0 to 19 - You can clearly benefit from a modest investment in learning ways to reduce stress and increase pleasures. A flurry of negative circumstances could spark emotional setbacks. Take steps now to avoid slowing your steady progression toward mastery of good living and self-efficacy.
   
• -18 to -37 - Stress of a daily nature that interferes with good living seems to be a problem - and it deserves your attention. Stress of a consistent negative nature in life will jeopardize your motivation to choose wisely and to sustain the energy level needed for good health and an enjoyable life. You are a candidate for counselling. You are either too pessimistic or have severe problems in dealing with stress.
   
• -38 to -75 - Oh my goodness. What do you do for a living - are you North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il, ruling dictator of the Hermit Kingdom? Something, lots of things, must be done to lighten the load, to eliminate much of the stress load from your life. Let's look on the bright side for a moment - you are still alive, you managed to complete the test without suffering a cardiac event and you probably have a sense of humour, more or less. But seriously, if you truly are as stressed as this little consciousness-raising set of questions would indicate, it's time for a chat with a wellness professional. I recommend that you start now to look after yourself with more loving attention.

Now take the time to review the items you rated in the Ardell Wellness Stress Test and identify which items are related more to physical health, mental health, emotional health, spiritual health, or social health. Do you notice any particular patterns in your answers? For example, are more areas of disappointment related to emotional health than to physical health? For holistic wellness the aim is to seek a balance across all of these dimensions of health.