IMPACT OF EVENT SCALE – REVISED

IMPACT OF EVENT SCALE – REVISED

Weiss & Marmar‚ 1997

INSTRUCTIONS: Below is a list of difficulties people sometimes have after stressful life events.

Please read each item‚ and then indicate how distressing each difficulty has been for you DURING THE

PAST SEVEN DAYS with respect to ____________________________‚ how much were you distressed or bothered by these difficulties?

Not at All = 0

A little Bit = 1

Moderately = 2

Quite a Bit = 3

Extremely= 4

• Any reminder brought back feelings about it. 0 1 2 3 4
• I had trouble staying asleep. 0 1 2 3 4
• Other things kept making me think about it. 0 1 2 3 4
• I felt irritable and angry. 0 1 2 3 4
• I avoided letting myself get upset when I thought about it or was reminded of it. 0 1 2 3 4
• I thought about it when I didn’t mean to. 0 1 2 3 4
• I felt as if it hadn’t happened or wasn’t real. 0 1 2 3 4
• I stayed away from reminders about it. 0 1 2 3 4
• Pictures about it popped into my mind. 0 1 2 3 4
• I was jumpy and easily startled. 0 1 2 3 4
• I tried not to think about it. 0 1 2 3 4
• I was aware that I still had a lot of feelings about it‚ but I didn’t deal with them. 0 1 2 3 4
• My feelings about it were kind of numb. 0 1 2 3 4
• I found myself acting or feeling like I was back at that time. 0 1 2 3 4
• I had trouble falling asleep. 0 1 2 3 4
• I had waves of strong feelings about it. 0 1 2 3 4
• I tried to remove it from my memory. 0 1 2 3 4
• I had trouble concentrating. 0 1 2 3 4
• Reminders of it caused me to have physical reactions‚ such as sweating‚ trouble breathing‚ nausea‚ or a pounding heart. 0 1 2 3 4
• I had dreams about it. 0 1 2 3 4
• I felt watchful and on guard. 0 1 2 3 4
• I tried not to talk about it. 0 1 2 3 4

SCORING:

Avoidance Subscale: Mean of items 5‚ 7 ‚8 ‚11 ‚12 ‚13 ‚17 ‚22

Intrusions Subscale: Mean of items 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 6‚ 9‚ 16‚ 20

Hyperarousal Subscale: Mean of items 4‚ 10‚ 14‚ 15‚ 18‚ 19‚ 21

Impact of Events – Revised score: Sum of the above three clinical scales.

 

Note that the Hyperarousal scale is made up of 7 new items (No’s 4‚10‚14‚15‚18‚19‚21) added to the original Impact of Events Scale (IES). For valid comparisons with scores from the IES‚ use just the sum of the Avoidance and Intrusion items.

 

York: Guilford © 1995: Daniel S. Weiss & ch‎arles R. Marmar

 

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