Abstract
Daily hassles are the small daily stressors of everyday life that can add up if they continue to occur over time. The aim of this study was to develop a checklist which would serve the purpose of measuring the daily hassles experienced by school teachers specifically. Two studies led to the development of the checklist. The study 1 dealt with the item generation process. This study describes the generation of items of the checklist only and not the validation process. Items generated were based on one focus group and five detailed semi structured interviews carried out with the secondary school teachers. Meaningful themes were derived from their discourse which resulted in a pool of 71 initial themes, which were further clustered and a final list of 24 consolidated themes was created which led to the formation of an initial daily hassles checklist of 24 items. In Study 2, the items were administered to a sample of secondary school teachers in order to determine the final structure of the checklist and for its further refinement, which led to a decrease in the total number of items depending on the frequency of responses. The final 20 items checklist was developed by the process carried out in the study 1 and 2 was then it was administered to another sample of secondary school teachers. Development of the indigenous measure would lead to future research studies in this respect.