scholarly journals Development and Assessment of the Reliability and Validity of a Psychological Stress Scale for Catheterized Home Healthcare Patients

2022 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshihide Ito ◽  
Ryoichi Ichihashi ◽  
Kouichi Tanabe ◽  
Tomomi Umemura ◽  
Masakazu Uemura ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salene M. Wu ◽  
Dagmar Amtmann

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a progressive disease characterized by neurological symptoms and sometimes heightened levels of distress. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is often used in MS samples to measure stress but has not been validated in this population. Participants (n=446) completed the PSS as well as measure of depression, anxiety, and mental and physical health. Factor analyses indicated that the general factor of a bifactor model accounted for a large amount of the variance in the 14-item and 10-item versions of the PSS. The 4-item PSS had two factors, the Stress subscale and the Coping subscale, but a one-factor model also fits the data well. Total scores and both subscales had sufficient reliability and validity for all versions of the PSS, although a few items of the 14-item PSS had low item-total correlations. This study supports the use of the total score of the PSS in MS but also suggests that the 10-item PSS had better psychometric properties than the 14-item PSS.


2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-105
Author(s):  
Yunkyoung Loh Garrison ◽  
Alexander Rice ◽  
William Ming Liu

The purpose of this study is to develop the American Meritocracy Myth Stress Scale (AMMSS), capable of assessing college students’ psychological stress within the context of the pervasive myth of meritocracy. This psychological stress stems from the association between their perceptions of their own hard work and social class mobility. Underpinned by the social class worldview model-revised, American meritocracy myth stress is conceptualized as the psychological stress that individuals experience when disequilibrium exists between the dominant and pervasive meritocracy ideology and their efforts to climb the social ladder through hard work. Three substudies were conducted for exploratory factor analysis (Study 1: n = 887); confirmatory factor analysis, validity, and measurement invariance (Study 2: n = 903); and 2-week test–retest reliability (Study 3: n = 37). The results of these studies provide empirical support for the AMMSS. We discuss implications for practice, advocacy, training, and future research.


2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 3287-3298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Andreou ◽  
Evangelos C. Alexopoulos ◽  
Christos Lionis ◽  
Liza Varvogli ◽  
Charalambos Gnardellis ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (17-18) ◽  
pp. 2417-2425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tso-Ying Lee ◽  
Hsing-Hsia Chen ◽  
Mei-Ling Yeh ◽  
Hui-Ling Li ◽  
Kuei-Ru Chou

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei-Hua Lee ◽  
William L. Holzemer ◽  
Julia Faucett

The purpose of this study was to translate the Nursing Stress Scale (NSS) into Chinese and test its reliability and validity among Chinese nurses in Taiwan. Potential participants were asked to self-administer a Chinese version of the NSS. The agreement estimation was used to determine the equivalence of the meaning between the Chinese and original English versions and was rated by five bilingual nurses as 92% accurate for the 34 items. The test-retest reliability for the NSS at 2 weeks was .71 (p = .022, n = 10). Internal consistency reliability and factor analysis were tested with 770 nurses from 65 inpatient units at a medical center in Taiwan. The internal consistency of the Chinese version of the NSS for an overall coefficient alpha is .91 for the total scale, and ranges from .67 to .79 for the subscales. The Chinese version of the NSS explains 53.77% of the variance in work stressors among Chinese nurses in Taiwan. Overall, the Chinese version of the NSS is internally consistent but may not be stable over 2 weeks. There was adequate evidence of the reliability and validity of the NSS-Chinese as an instrument appropriate to measure work stress among Chinese nurses. The translated NSS could be a useful tool for examining the frequency and major sources of stress experienced by Chinese nurses in hospital settings, and for the development of appropriate interventions for stress reduction.


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 628-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon H Baik ◽  
Rina S Fox ◽  
Sarah D Mills ◽  
Scott C Roesch ◽  
Georgia Robins Sadler ◽  
...  

This study examined the psychometric properties of the Perceived Stress Scale-10 among 436 community-dwelling Hispanic Americans with English or Spanish language preference. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis examined the factorial invariance of the Perceived Stress Scale-10 across language groups. Results supported a two-factor model (negative, positive) with equivalent response patterns and item intercepts but different factor covariances across languages. Internal consistency reliability of the Perceived Stress Scale-10 total and subscale scores was good in both language groups. Convergent validity was supported by expected relationships of Perceived Stress Scale-10 scores to measures of anxiety and depression. These results support the use of the Perceived Stress Scale-10 among Hispanic Americans.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-110
Author(s):  
Shanaz Nadia Aulia Maharani ◽  
IGAA Noviekayati ◽  
Tatik Meiyuntariningsih

                                                                               Abstract                                The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of expressive writing therapy in reducing stress levels in adolescents with albinism, and to see the difference in the effects of expressive writing therapy to reduce stress in adolescence with albinism in terms of introverted personality types and. This study included experimental research with Quasi Experiment with one group pretest-posttest design. Subjects used in this study were 6 (six) adolescents with albinism, 3 (three) subjects with introverted personality type and 3 (three) subjects with extrovert personality type. The six subjects were selected for having a high stress score. The instrument used is a stress scale developed from the Lazarus theory with reliability of 0.948 and the scale of personality types developed from Eysenck theory with reliability and validity of 0.720. The results showed expressive writing therapy method is effective to reduce stress in adolescents with albinism. The results also showed no difference in stress reduction between subjects with introverted personality and subjects with extroverted personality.Keywords: Expressive Writing Therapy, Stress, Introvert, Extrovert 


Assessment ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 1246-1259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Reis ◽  
Dirk Lehr ◽  
Elena Heber ◽  
David Daniel Ebert

The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is a popular instrument for measuring the degree to which individuals appraise situations in their lives as excessively uncontrollable and overloaded. Despite its widespread use (e.g., for evaluating intervention effects in stress management studies), there is still no agreement on its factor structure. Hence, the aim of the present study was to examine the dimensionality, measurement invariance (i.e., across gender, samples, and time), reliability, and validity of the PSS. Data from 11,939 German adults (73% women) were used to establish an exploratory bifactor model for the PSS with one general and two specific factors and to cross-validate this model in a confirmatory bifactor model. The model displayed strong measurement invariance across gender and was replicated in Study 2 in data derived from six randomized controlled trials investigating a web-based stress management training. In Study 2 (overall N = 1,862), we found strong temporal invariance. Also, our analyses of concurrent and predictive validity showed associations with depressive symptoms, anxiety, and insomnia severity for the three latent PSS factors. These results show the implications of the bifactor structure of the PSS that might be of consequence in empirical research.


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