The psychometric adaptation of the depression, anxiety and stress scales in a sample of Salvadorean adolescents
Published 2020-06-01
Keywords
- Youth - Stress (psychology) - El Salvador,
- Anxiety - Case studies - El Salvador,
- Youth - Life behavior - El Salvador,
- Emotional problems in young people - El Salvador
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Abstract
This study focuses on adapting the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) in a sample of Salvadorean teenagers. In order to do so, a non-probabilistic sample of 280 Salvadorean adolescents was taken. This is an instrumental study with a retrospective and transversal design; a survey was used for data collection. In addition to the DASS, the Goldberg´s Depression and Anxiety Scale was also applied. The median for the total ages was 17.47 years old. In reference to sex, 95 (33,9%) were male, and 185 (66,1%) were female. The results indicate that the test possesses an adequate validity in its construct, criteria and reliability to measure these problems in Salvadorean adolescents.
Keywords: Youth - Stress (psychology) - El Salvador, Anxiety - Case studies - El Salvador, Youth - Life behavior - El Salvador, Emotional problems in young people - El Salvador.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11298/1150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5377/entorno.v0i69.9556