From the perspective of the job characteristics and dualrole of editors of college newspaper in higher learning institutions, based on literature, related scales, interview and open questionnaires, questionnaires are made for stress scale of the editors of college newspaper in higher learning institutions. The questionnaire has been conducted on college newspaper editors from the whole nation and the test data are analyzed by exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The exploratory factor analysis results show that the stress of the college newspaper editors in higher learning institutions comes from such six aspects as career development, job characteristics, leader support, workload, living security and industrial competition, while the confirmatory factor analysis results indicate that the obtained six factors are better matching conceived models and that reliability and validity of the designed stress scale of the editors reach the requirement of psychometrics, therefore, the stress scale can serve as a tool to measure the stress of the editors in the future.