ABSTRACT
In the tradition of North American psychological research on stress, paper and pencil measurements have been long-time favourites. Given problems of validity and reliability of checklists and self-reports, Lazarus and Folkman’s book in 1984 Stress, Appraisal and Coping had come to many as a consolation for the difficulty of measuring life hardships in a consistent fashion: the quintessence of the stress experience laid in the subjective appraisal of threat.
