Depression Anxiety Stress Scales : Factor structure and differential item functioning across women and men

Title: Depression Anxiety Stress Scales : Factor structure and differential item functioning across women and men
Creator: Gomez, Rapson
Date: 2013
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/45094
Identifier: vital:4892
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.11.025
Identifier: ISSN:0191-8869
Abstract: This study examined the factor structure, and differential item functioning of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS; Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995) across sex. The DASS was completed by 201 women and 165 men from the general community. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) indicated support for the original 3-factor oblique model (factors for depression, anxiety and stress). There was however more support for a bifactor model, with four orthogonal factors: a general factor on which all the depression, anxiety and stress items load, and specific independent factors for depression, anxiety and stress items. None of the DASS items showed DIF. The practical, theoretical, research and clinical implications of the findings are discussed. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Relation: Personality and Individual Differences Vol. 54, no. 6 (2013), p. 687-691
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: cience; Depression Anxiety Stress Scales; Differential item functioning; Factor structure; Sex differences; 1702 Cognitive Science
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