A Japanese version of the Perceived Stress Scale: Cross-cultural translation and equivalence assessment

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mimura, Chizu ^a,b   Griffiths, Peter ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b James Clerk Maxwell building Waterloo Road ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; MALE; MARRIAGE; NERVOUSNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSING STUDENT; PHARMACY STUDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; ADOLESCENT; JAPAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54349093576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-8-85     Document Type: Article

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