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- Title
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Perceived Stress Scale-4 in a Community Sample.
- Authors
Ingram, Paul B.; Clarke, Erik; Lichtenberg, James W.
- Abstract
Although the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is among the most widely used measures of perceived stress, it has only recently begun to be tested in independent psychometric validation studies, and the four ‐ item version of the PSS (PSS ‐ 4) (the briefest version of this measure) has never undergone testing to examine and confirm the originally proposed structure. To address this paucity of research, the present study (a) tested the structure of the PSS ‐ 4 in the first confirmatory factor analysis of the instrument and (b) tested for item ‐ level gender differences in the PSS that have been demonstrated in other versions of this scale. Results indicated that the PSS four ‐ item measure does not fit its proposed model. Additionally, score differences were observed for one item across genders. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
CONTROL (Psychology); CHI-squared test; COMMUNITY health services; STATISTICAL correlation; FACTOR analysis; RESEARCH methodology; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SEX distribution; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; SURVEYS; MATHEMATICAL variables; EDUCATIONAL attainment; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; DATA analysis software; MEDICAL coding; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Stress & Health: Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress, 2016, Vol 32, Issue 2, p173
- ISSN
1532-3005
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/smi.2592