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Published English PSS-4 · Site Chinese translation · Full guide free
Four past-month questions with a transparent 0–16 raw total and a complete guide. No diagnosis or universal score cutoffs.
4 questions · about 1 minute · no signup
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This page uses the published English PSS-4 items. The Chinese prompts are an independent FermatMind translation, not the listed official China version; Chinese measurement equivalence and norms are not claimed. Use your feelings and thoughts during the past month to answer each question. There is no target score.
This page uses the four English questions from the author-laboratory source file. FermatMind’s original One-Month Stress Check-In remains a separate form with its own prompts and reverse keys.
PSS-4 is a brief self-report, not a diagnostic instrument. Published validation results depend on the studied language and sample.
Use x1 + (4 − x2) + (4 − x3) + x4. The total ranges from 0 to 16.
The complete-response requirement is a website policy. A missing response is not zero and is not replaced by an average.
A larger raw sum reflects more perceived stress in these answers. No universal low, medium or high cutoffs are assigned.
Historical US or UK norms and results from particular Chinese samples are not website population norms.
Answers and the total remain only in page memory. Exit, reload or language change clears them.
Copy only the fixed guide title and URL. Do not put a personal score or response in a URL, analytics event or clipboard share.
Read the complete guide to the four-item raw total, reverse keys, monthly timeframe and reference limits before answering. No universal severity bands are assigned.
Read the arithmetic, response patterns, limitations and optional next steps without diagnostic cutoffs.
It is the sum of four item contributions after reversing items 2 and 3. It describes these past-month answers rather than a diagnosis.
No universal low, medium or high cutoffs are assigned. Read the total alongside your answers and circumstances.
You may leave without a score. This website requires four valid choices for a total and does not impute missing answers; that is its own implementation policy.
This edition keeps the past-month wording. It does not claim validation for a different recall period.
Do not assume equal measurement properties. The Chinese prompts and answer labels here are FermatMind’s independent translation, not the listed official China version; validated cross-language equivalence and Chinese population norms are not claimed.
No draft or answer history is retained. Only a fixed public guide title and URL are copied, without your answers or total.
These sources provide background, not validation of this questionnaire or an individual diagnosis.
Website content edition fm_pss4_en_site_zh_v1 ·
Source question / scoring / report versions: CMU-public-pss_4_item.doc-SHA256-9f3cc76d;not-a-verified-publisher-release-number / pss4_reverse_2_3_sum_0to16_complete4_v1 / pss4_full_guide_v1