Measurement Invariance of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 Across Gender in a Sample of Chinese University Students

Frontiers in Psychology

Shan Lu¹  Jing Xiao¹  Shuqing Hu¹  Yuhuan Guan¹  Zhihua Gao²  Xiaochi Zhang³  Jürgen Margraf³  Jie Wei⁴  Dan Cai⁵  Zhiqin Sang⁶ 

[1] College of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China;College of Psychology, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China;Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany;Department of Education, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, China;Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China;Department of Sociology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China;

关键词: measurement invariance;    DASS-21;    gender difference;    confirmatory factor analysis;    Chinese;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02064

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21) has three 7-item subscales (depression, anxiety, and stress). The current study aims assess the gender-based measurement invariance of the DASS-21 questionnaire in a Chinese university student sample from five different cities. The sample was composed of 13208 participants (62.3% female, mean age of 19.7 years, and SD age = 1.8). Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis supported full measurement invariance for the three subscales. The findings support the measurement invariance of DASS-21 scores across gender. Future research on the DASS should include additional validation across ethnicities and testing of all versions of the DASS.

【 授权许可】

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