Essi Systems, Inc. was founded in 1983-a stress research and management consulting firm specializing in the measurement of workplace stress, health and performance.

As the creator of StressMap®-Essi has spearheaded the Self-Care approach to quality of life and focused on the issue of self-measurement and self-management.

Essi Systems StressMap® will help you explore sources of stress and your personal responses to them.

Essi Systems StressMap® pinpoints your strengths and areas of improvement, detects burnout zones and helps you chart new strategies for enhancing personal health and performance.

Essi Systems, StressMap® is designed to assess one’s respective stress strengths and stress vulnerabilities by looking at 21 stress factors or scales.

The individual StressMap® can be utilized as a personal needs assessment.

Essi Systems StressMap® Scoring Grid shows stress rhythm and measurably maps performance in four different zones: Optimal, Balance, Strain and Burnout.

The StressMap® Questionnaire

The StressMap® Questionnaire gives you the opportunity to asses your current level of effectiveness in each of these four areas.

Through completion of the questionnaire’s twenty-one stress factor scales, you will create your own performance snapshot. You will have a sense of the current state of balance and harmony in your life.

The questionnaire is divided into four separate sections:

Part 1: Your Environment

- Examines the changes, pressures and satisfactions that are part of your  everyday work, personal and family worlds.

Part 2: Coping Responses

- Explores six basic skills that help you manage stressful situations in your environment.

Part 3: Inner World

- Measures six thinking and feeling patterns that help or hinder your ability to manage stress.

Part 4: Signals of Distress

- Gives you a reading of your body’s health and your degree of difficulty in managing work and life stress.