Question

What is the shortcoming of measuring stress by asking about events and circumstances of someone's life? What are disadvantages of measuring stress by asking people how they feel?

Answer 1

The shortcoming of measuring stress by asking events is the person may not in the right frame of mind to answer questions and it can lead to not answering the answers effectively .This will change the results in the data.The other problem is they may not want to give correct answers or true answers to situation they are asked.They made not be stressed at the time of questions being asked and this will affect the final data.Many of them do not want to talk about their stress and they prefer to talk to a person who is more confidential than to a researcher about their stress.