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Negative emotionality in a large community sample of adolescents: the factor structure and measurement invariance of the short version of the depression anxiety stress scales (DASS‐21)
Author(s) -
Willemsen Jochem,
Markey Samuel,
Declercq Frédéric,
Vanheule Stijn
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
stress and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1532-2998
pISSN - 1532-3005
DOI - 10.1002/smi.1342
Subject(s) - emotionality , psychology , dass , confirmatory factor analysis , anxiety , measurement invariance , sample (material) , developmental psychology , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , structural equation modeling , psychiatry , statistics , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography , economics , macroeconomics
The purpose of this study was to examine five possible models of negative emotionality using the short version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) in a large sample of non‐clinical adolescents ( N = 677). The results from our confirmatory factor analysis reveal that negative emotionality in adolescents is best represented by the tripartite model. Our findings are in line with other studies regarding the structure of negative emotionality in adolescents and provide support for the validity of the tripartite model of negative emotionality underlying the DASS‐21 in adolescent boys and girls. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.