Measurement Invariance of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 Across Gender in a Sample of Chinese University Students

The Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21) has three 7-item subscales (depression, anxiety, and stress). The current study aims assess the gender-based measurement invariance of the DASS-21 questionnaire in a Chinese university student sample from five different cities. The sample was compose...

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Autores principales: Lu, Shan, Hu, Shuqing, Guan, Yuhuan, Xiao, Jing, Cai, Dan, Gao, Zhihua, Sang, Zhiqin, Wei, Jie, Zhang, Xiaochi, Margraf, Jürgen
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6220040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30429809
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02064
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author Lu, Shan
Hu, Shuqing
Guan, Yuhuan
Xiao, Jing
Cai, Dan
Gao, Zhihua
Sang, Zhiqin
Wei, Jie
Zhang, Xiaochi
Margraf, Jürgen
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Hu, Shuqing
Guan, Yuhuan
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Cai, Dan
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description The Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21) has three 7-item subscales (depression, anxiety, and stress). The current study aims assess the gender-based measurement invariance of the DASS-21 questionnaire in a Chinese university student sample from five different cities. The sample was composed of 13208 participants (62.3% female, mean age of 19.7 years, and SD age = 1.8). Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis supported full measurement invariance for the three subscales. The findings support the measurement invariance of DASS-21 scores across gender. Future research on the DASS should include additional validation across ethnicities and testing of all versions of the DASS.
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spelling pubmed-62200402018-11-14 Measurement Invariance of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 Across Gender in a Sample of Chinese University Students Lu, Shan Hu, Shuqing Guan, Yuhuan Xiao, Jing Cai, Dan Gao, Zhihua Sang, Zhiqin Wei, Jie Zhang, Xiaochi Margraf, Jürgen Front Psychol Psychology The Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21) has three 7-item subscales (depression, anxiety, and stress). The current study aims assess the gender-based measurement invariance of the DASS-21 questionnaire in a Chinese university student sample from five different cities. The sample was composed of 13208 participants (62.3% female, mean age of 19.7 years, and SD age = 1.8). Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis supported full measurement invariance for the three subscales. The findings support the measurement invariance of DASS-21 scores across gender. Future research on the DASS should include additional validation across ethnicities and testing of all versions of the DASS. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6220040/ /pubmed/30429809 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02064 Text en Copyright © 2018 Lu, Hu, Guan, Xiao, Cai, Gao, Sang, Wei, Zhang and Margraf. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychology
Lu, Shan
Hu, Shuqing
Guan, Yuhuan
Xiao, Jing
Cai, Dan
Gao, Zhihua
Sang, Zhiqin
Wei, Jie
Zhang, Xiaochi
Margraf, Jürgen
Measurement Invariance of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 Across Gender in a Sample of Chinese University Students
title Measurement Invariance of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 Across Gender in a Sample of Chinese University Students
title_full Measurement Invariance of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 Across Gender in a Sample of Chinese University Students
title_fullStr Measurement Invariance of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 Across Gender in a Sample of Chinese University Students
title_full_unstemmed Measurement Invariance of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 Across Gender in a Sample of Chinese University Students
title_short Measurement Invariance of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 Across Gender in a Sample of Chinese University Students
title_sort measurement invariance of the depression anxiety stress scales-21 across gender in a sample of chinese university students
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6220040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30429809
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02064
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