Journal of Studies in Education ISSN 2162-6952 2017, Vol. 7, No. 3 www.macrothink.org/jse 102 Constructing a Scale to Assess Psychological Stress among Employees Working with Intellectual Disabilities Dr. Lama M. Alqaisy Faculty of Educational Sciences Department of Educational Psychology, Tafila Technical University E-mail: lamaqaisy@yahoo.com Entesar A. Shqerat Faculty of Educational Sciences Department of Educational Psychology, Tafila Technical University E-mail: entesar@ttu.edu.jo Dr. Ahmad M. Thawabieh Faculty of Educational Sciences Department of Educational Psychology, Tafila Technical University E-mail: ahmadthawabieh@yahoo.com Received: June 23, 2017 Accepted: July 20, 2017 Published: August 1, 2017 doi:10.5296/jse.v7i3.11520 URL: https://doi.org/10.5296/jse.v7i3.11520 Abstract This study aimed at constructing a scale to assess psychological stress among employees working with intellectual disabilities, to accomplish that, the researchers constructed the scale and used 58 employees working at these centers to explore its psychometric characteristics. The results indicated that the level of psychological stress among the employees was mid, and the psychometric characteristics were appropriate. Keywords: psychological stress, intellectual disabilities, employees, psychometric characteristics