Psychometric profile of Malaysian version of the Depressive, Anxiety and Stress Scale 42-item (DASS-42)
Background: The Malay short version of Depressive Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) has been widely used as a tool to measure psychological parameters in studies in Malaysia. The version has been found to be reliable for clinical and non-clinical populations. Objectives: To analyse and establish...
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| author | Musa, Ramli Sarkarsi, Rosnani Abdul Rahim, Aidil Faszrul |
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| description | Background: The Malay short version of Depressive Anxiety and Stress Scale
(DASS-21) has been widely used as a tool to measure psychological
parameters in studies in Malaysia. The version has been found to be reliable
for clinical and non-clinical populations. Objectives: To analyse and establish
the psychometric properties of the Malay version of the DASS 42-item (BM
DASS-42) among medical students. Methods: Concurrent forward and
backward translations of original English DASS-42 were completed.
Construct validity of the DASS-42 was established by looking at its
exploratory factor analysis. Malay DASS-42 and Malay HADS were
administered to a total of 411 medical students. Results: Reliability of DASS-
42 revealed excellent Cronbach’s alpha values of 0.94, 0.90 and 0.87 for
depressive, anxiety and stress domains respectively. Construct validity
yielded 38 items out of 42 items (90%) had good factor loadings of 0.4 and
more. DASS and HADS were strongly correlated for both anxiety (r=0.87)
and depression (r=0.68) domains. Conclusions: The BM DASS-42 had
admirable psychometric properties among the tested population. Further
studies are needed to verify these preliminary outcomes in other Malaysian subjects. |
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| spelling | iium-230302017-03-15T08:44:16Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/23030/ Psychometric profile of Malaysian version of the Depressive, Anxiety and Stress Scale 42-item (DASS-42) Musa, Ramli Sarkarsi, Rosnani Abdul Rahim, Aidil Faszrul R Medicine (General) Background: The Malay short version of Depressive Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) has been widely used as a tool to measure psychological parameters in studies in Malaysia. The version has been found to be reliable for clinical and non-clinical populations. Objectives: To analyse and establish the psychometric properties of the Malay version of the DASS 42-item (BM DASS-42) among medical students. Methods: Concurrent forward and backward translations of original English DASS-42 were completed. Construct validity of the DASS-42 was established by looking at its exploratory factor analysis. Malay DASS-42 and Malay HADS were administered to a total of 411 medical students. Results: Reliability of DASS- 42 revealed excellent Cronbach’s alpha values of 0.94, 0.90 and 0.87 for depressive, anxiety and stress domains respectively. Construct validity yielded 38 items out of 42 items (90%) had good factor loadings of 0.4 and more. DASS and HADS were strongly correlated for both anxiety (r=0.87) and depression (r=0.68) domains. Conclusions: The BM DASS-42 had admirable psychometric properties among the tested population. Further studies are needed to verify these preliminary outcomes in other Malaysian subjects. Malaysian Journal of Psychiatry 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/23030/1/n89_8.pdf Musa, Ramli and Sarkarsi, Rosnani and Abdul Rahim, Aidil Faszrul (2012) Psychometric profile of Malaysian version of the Depressive, Anxiety and Stress Scale 42-item (DASS-42). Malaysian Journal of Psychiatry, 21 (1). pp. 1-7. ISSN 0128-8628 https://www.mjpsychiatry.org/index.php/mjp/article/view/164 |
| spellingShingle | R Medicine (General) Musa, Ramli Sarkarsi, Rosnani Abdul Rahim, Aidil Faszrul Psychometric profile of Malaysian version of the Depressive, Anxiety and Stress Scale 42-item (DASS-42) |
| title | Psychometric profile of Malaysian version of the Depressive, Anxiety and Stress Scale 42-item (DASS-42) |
| title_full | Psychometric profile of Malaysian version of the Depressive, Anxiety and Stress Scale 42-item (DASS-42) |
| title_fullStr | Psychometric profile of Malaysian version of the Depressive, Anxiety and Stress Scale 42-item (DASS-42) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Psychometric profile of Malaysian version of the Depressive, Anxiety and Stress Scale 42-item (DASS-42) |
| title_short | Psychometric profile of Malaysian version of the Depressive, Anxiety and Stress Scale 42-item (DASS-42) |
| title_sort | psychometric profile of malaysian version of the depressive, anxiety and stress scale 42-item (dass-42) |
| topic | R Medicine (General) |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/23030/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/23030/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/23030/1/n89_8.pdf |