Measures of Emotional Health

1. SELF-EFFICACY AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS

Self-Efficacy

*Rodin & McAvay's self-efficacy measure
General Self-Efficacy Scale
ISR Personal Efficacy Index

Personal Control

*Personal Mastery Scale
*Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
*Internality, Powerful Others, & Chance Scales
*Adult Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Control Scale
Personality in Intellectual Aging Contexts (PIC) control Scales
*Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale
*Mental Health Locus of Control Scale

Powerlessness

*Powerlessness Scale

Sense of Coherence

*Sense of Coherence

2. DEPRESSION AND HOPELESSNESS

Depression

Structured Clinical Interview
Diagnostic Interview Schedule
Composite International Diagnostic Interview
Canberra Interview for the Elderly
*Beck Depression Inventory
*Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale
*Geriatric Depression Scale
*Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale
*Depression Adjective Checklist
Attributional Style Questionnaire

Hopelessness

Beck Hopelessness Scale

3. HOSTILITY AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS

Hostility

Cook-Medley Hostility Inventory
Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory

Anger

*Spielberger State, Trait, Expression of Anger Inventory
Framingham Anger Scales
*Onset Anger Scale

Type A Behavior

Structured Interview
Jenkins Activity Survey
Framingham Type A Scale
Bortner Rating Scale

4. ANXIETY

*Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
Endler Multidimensional Anxiety Scales
Crown-Crisp Phobic Anxiety Index
Worries Scale
*Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale
Framingham Tension Scale

5. PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS

Environmental demands

Major life events

*Social Readjustment Rating Scale
Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Interview for Life Events
Geriatric Social Readjustment Rating Scale

Daily Events

*Hassles Scale
Inventory of Small Life Events
Daily Life Experiences Checklist
Daily Stress Inventory

Chronic Strains

Family Environment Scale
Marital Situations Inventory
Marital Agendas Protocol
Burden Interview

Psychological Appraisal

*Perceived Stress Scale
Perceived Stress Questionnaire
Stress Appraisal Measure

Emotional responses

Nowlis Mood Adjective Checklist
*Profile of Mood States
Differential Emotions Scale
*Positive and Negative Affect Schedule

Reactive responding

MacArthur reactive responding scales*

6. OPTIMISM

*Life Orientation Test
MMPI Optimism-Pessimism Scale*

7. SELF-ESTEEM

*Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale
*Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory

8. MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASURES

*Cornell Medical Index
*General Health Questionnaire
*Hopkins Symptom Checklist-90
*Brief Symptom Inventory
*MMPI
*General Well-Being Scale

9. QUALITY OF LIFE

Sickness Impact Profile
*Nottingham Health Profile
*Short Form-36 Health Survey>
WHOQOL-100
Multilevel Assessment Instrument
Older Americans Resources & Services (OARS) Questionnaire
Older Adult Self-Report (OASR) & Older Adult Behavior Checklist

10. OTHER DOMAINS FOR CONSIDERATION

De-Jong-Gierveld Loneliness Scale (De-Jong et al., 1985).
Rotter Interpersonal Trust Scale (Rotter, 1967)

* Copy of measure is readily available.