Psychometric evaluation of perceived stress scale for Turkish university students

By M. Ç. Örücü, A. Demir. 2009

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The purpose of the study was to investigate the applicability of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) to a Turkish sample. PSS (Cohen, Kamarck, & Mermelstein, 1983) is a general appraisal instrument that measures the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as stressful. Five hundred and eight freshman students at the Middle East Technical University at the age of 16–29 filled in the Turkish translation of the PSS. The alpha coefficient for the Turkish version of PSS was found as 0.84, and PSS correlated 0.61 with the General Health Questionnaire. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the PSS showed that the scale consisted of two factors: Perceived Helplessness factor and Perceived Self-efficacy. In general, the data indicated that the PSS provides a reliable and valid measure of perceived stress for a Turkish sample. The findings provide useful information for researchers and practitioners wishing to adapt foreign psychological tests to different cultures, especially in relation to the assessment of university students. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions

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The Perceived Stress Scale: Evaluating Configural, Metric and Scalar Invariance across Mental Health Status and Gender (2011, result): “Similar to past findings using both the 14 and 10 item scale versions in a variety of populations, factor compositions of the PSS are distinguished by item valence (Cohen and Williamson 1988; Golden-Kreutz et al. 2004; Gitchel et al. 2011; Hewitt et al. 1992; Martin et al. 1995; Ramírez and Hernánde”
Review of the psychometric evidence of the perceived stress scale. (2012, background): “Örücü & Demir (2009) PSS-10 .84 d EFA with a varimax rotation: Two-factor structure accounted for 56.24% of variance.”
Perceived Stress Scale: Reliability and Validity Study in Greece (2011, background): “So far, the scale has been translated in many languages such as Arabic, Swedish, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Turkish [17-22].”
Evaluating the Perceived Stress Scale among UK university students: implications for stress measurement and management (2019, background): “In relation to previous research with student samples (e.g. Örücü and Demir 2009; Roberti, Harrington, and Storch 2006; Wongpakaran and Wongpakaran 2010), the correlated two- factor solution provided a good fit to the data, but none of the fit indices showed an improvement over those observed for…”
Perceived Stress and Life Satisfaction in College Students: Belonging and Extracurricular Participation as Moderators (2015, unknown): “The PSS-10 Turkish version has demonstrated adequate psychometric properties (Erci, 2006; Orucu & Demir, 2009).”