Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS): The Study of Validity and Reliability

By Ertan Basha, Mehmet Kaya. 2016

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The purpose of this study is to examine validity and reliability of the Albanian version of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS), which is developed by Lovibond and Lovibond (1995). The sample of this study is consisted of 555 subjects who were living in Kosovo. The results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated 42 items loaded on three factors (Depression, Anxiety and Stress). As it is shown in the original form, the scale is occurred by three factors. Factor's coefficients were as follows: for the depression .25 to .61, for anxiety .30 to .53 and for stress .31 to .51 for overall scale. Compliance validation points of DASS were respectively found between .85 and .81 and, 80. Item total correlations were .25 to .61. Findings demonstrated that Albanian version of DASS has similarity with other researches for reliability and validity scores.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Speech and Hearing

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Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) (2018, background): “Given the long form of the DASS (Akin & Cetin, 2007; Bilgel & Bayram, 2010; Hekimoglu, Altun, Kaya, Bayram, & Bilgel, 2012) and other measures of depression (e.g. BDI, Beck et al., 1979; Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, Radloff, 1977), this may have compromised the assessment…”