Lazarus raises several important issues regarding the assessment of stress and emotion. I focus on two related topics that are especially relevant to my own research in this area. First, I explore the evidence for and implications of the important (but frequently ignored) dispositional component of self-report stress scales. Second, I comment on unidimensional versus multidimensional assessment of stress and emotion.
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David Watson (1990) studied this question.
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