Validated Work Stress and Resilience Questionnaires

Work Stress Screener (WOSS-13) and Resilience at Work Scale (ReWoS-24)

Work stress is a global issue with countries such as the UK requiring organisations to protect employees. Work stress can be beneficial (challenging) or harmful (overwhelming), and characteristics such as resilience are thought to mitigate some of the negative effects. Two new scales have been developed to assess the level and type of work stress experienced by individual employees, and resilience at an individual and team level.

The WOSS-13 was developed to assess whether work-related stress levels are experienced that differentiate between stress which harms the work performance and stress which challenges the individual and may promote work performance. The WOSS is a 13-item instrument which is presented as two distinct subscales. Scores for benign stress (challenging) range between 0 and 24, and for harmful stress range between 0 and 15.

The ReWoS-24 identifies how resilient members of a workforce are in the context of work stress is considered likely to enhance an employers’ ability to support members of their team, to prevent work stress leading to negative consequences both for individual employees and work teams. The ReWoS-24 is a 24-item instrument which is presented as two distinct subscales. Scores for individual resilience at work range between 0 and 54, and for team resilience range between 0 and 18.

Each of these questionnaires takes approximately 5 minutes to complete.

Information relating to the validation of these questionnaires

Copies of the validated questionnaires can be found at:

Work Resilience Scale (ReWoS-24) (PDF , 205kb)

Work Stress Screener (WoSS-13) (PDF , 200kb)