Emerging adulthood is characterized by a prolonged transition from adolescence into adult roles and responsibilities. During this time, changes across multiple life domains can elicit stress, and while the impact of this has received substantial attention, measurement across different domains has been inconsistent. The ability to assess both the global stress experience and specific stressor domains (such as in family, peer and romantic relationships, study, work, finances, competing priorities and the future) would be valuable in understanding and addressing the impact of stress on well-being during this period. Informed by the Adolescent Stress Questionnaire, this study sought to design and evaluate the psychometric properties of a multidimensional self-report stress scale for use in emerging adults. The factor structure and validity of the self-report instrument was examined in two large community samples of emerging adults (Nsample1 = 760, Nsample2 = 546) aged 18 to 25 years. A series of exploratory factor analyses yielded eight internally reliable dimensions of emerging adult stress which were then validated with confirmatory factor analysis against univariate and hierarchical models. The derived scale scores related positively to established measures of general stress, anxiety and depression, and negatively to self-esteem, supporting their validity as measures of emerging adult stress. Associations across the domains with age and gender are also reported. The resultant 39-item Emerging Adult Stress Inventory offers a multidimensional self-report stress measure for emerging adults which enables investigation of specificity in the relationship between stress and well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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成人新兴压力量表（EASI）的心理计量学验证。

新兴的成年期的特征是从青春期到成年角色和责任的长期过渡。在这段时间里，跨多个生命域的变化会引起压力，尽管这种影响受到了广泛关注，但跨不同域的测量却不一致。评估全球压力经历和特定压力源领域（例如在家庭，同伴和恋爱关系，学习，工作，财务，竞争重点和未来方面）的能力，对于理解和应对压力对健康的影响非常有价值。在此期间。受青少年压力问卷调查的影响，本研究旨在设计和评估用于新兴成年人的多维自我报告压力量表的心理测量特性。在两个18至25岁的新兴成年人的大型社区样本（Nsample1 = 760，Nsample2 = 546）中检查了自我报告工具的因素结构和有效性。一系列探索性因素分析得出了新兴成人压力的八个内部可靠维度，然后通过针对单变量和分层模型的确认性因素分析对其进行了验证。得出的量表分数与一般压力，焦虑和抑郁的既定度量呈正相关，而与自尊则呈负相关，支持其作为新出现的成人应激的度量的有效性。还报告了跨域与年龄和性别的关联。由此产生的39个项目的新兴成年人压力清单为新兴成年人提供了多维自我报告压力量度，从而可以研究压力与幸福感之间关系的特异性。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。