摘要：The aim of this research is to analyze the psychometric specialties of the Educational Stress Scalethat was developed by Sun, Dunne, Hou and Xu through carrying out adapting activities to Turkish. The scale isa five-Likert type scale composed of 16 items with five dimensions in itself. The participants of the study are625 students studying at primary and secondary schools in the city center of Erzurum. After the translationprocesses, expert opinions were taken for the language validity. For the structure validity, exploratory andconfirmative factor analyses were conducted. The results of describing factor analysis indicated that the scaleexplained four-dimension variations by 62,31 % and it was also found that the result of confirmative factoranalysis showed well conformity with this four-dimension structure (RMSEA=.054, RMR= .013, NFI=.90,CFI=.96, IFI=.97, RFI=.92, AGFI=.90, GFI=.92). These sub-dimensions are working press, workload, successanxiety and desperateness of expectancy. As a result of the reliability analysis of the scale, consistency coefficiencywas found for all scale .86 while it was found .81 for test retest reliability of the scale.
