The Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21): do they measure anything beyond a general factor?
The overlap between depression and anxiety is a widely-replicated finding in mental health research. The Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales (DASS-21) were developed to maximize the discrimination between these constructs. However, research suggests that DASS-21 predominantly measure an ove...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Perú |
| Institución: | Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón |
| Repositorio: | Revistas - Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.unife.edu.pe:article/1796 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unife.edu.pe/index.php/avancesenpsicologia/article/view/1796 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | depresión, ansiedad, DASS-21, análisis factorial, modelo bifactor depression, anxiety, DASS-21, factor analysis, bifactor model. |
| Sumario: | The overlap between depression and anxiety is a widely-replicated finding in mental health research. The Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales (DASS-21) were developed to maximize the discrimination between these constructs. However, research suggests that DASS-21 predominantly measure an overall factor of emotional distress. In this study, DASS-21 were translated and applied to 353 university students (Mage = 20.42; 61% women) from Lima, Peru. The confirmatory factorial analysis supported a bifactor model, but additional analyses revealed that the data were essentially one-dimensional. Moreover, when the items were subjected to a bifactor exploratory analysis, some did not load into their original specific factors. The conclusion was that DASS-21 must be interpreted as a global dimension of emotional distress. |
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