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Confirmatory factor analysis of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale among Indian adults

BACKGROUND: The Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS) is a widely used measure of negative emotional states. While the DASS is increasingly used in mental health research in India, to date no study has examined the factor structure among Indian adults. METHODS: A large community sample of Eng...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Manoj Kumar, Hallford, David John, Anand, Nitin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7597713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33165390
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_313_19
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description BACKGROUND: The Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS) is a widely used measure of negative emotional states. While the DASS is increasingly used in mental health research in India, to date no study has examined the factor structure among Indian adults. METHODS: A large community sample of English-speaking Indian adults completed the DASS 21-item version, and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted. RESULTS: The results indicated a good fit for a three factor (depression, anxiety, and stress) and a one-factor model (general psychological distress). There was no substantial difference between the fit of the models, and the DASS subscales were very strongly correlated with one another (r ≥ .80). CONCLUSION: The findings from this sample suggest that the DASS-21 items appear to assess general psychological distress, with little evidence that the items assess three distinct subscales.
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spelling pubmed-75977132020-11-03 Confirmatory factor analysis of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale among Indian adults Sharma, Manoj Kumar Hallford, David John Anand, Nitin Indian J Psychiatry Original Article BACKGROUND: The Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS) is a widely used measure of negative emotional states. While the DASS is increasingly used in mental health research in India, to date no study has examined the factor structure among Indian adults. METHODS: A large community sample of English-speaking Indian adults completed the DASS 21-item version, and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted. RESULTS: The results indicated a good fit for a three factor (depression, anxiety, and stress) and a one-factor model (general psychological distress). There was no substantial difference between the fit of the models, and the DASS subscales were very strongly correlated with one another (r ≥ .80). CONCLUSION: The findings from this sample suggest that the DASS-21 items appear to assess general psychological distress, with little evidence that the items assess three distinct subscales. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7597713/ /pubmed/33165390 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_313_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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