An Arabic version of the Perceived Stress Scale: Translation and validation study

International Journal of Nursing Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 84-89

  Almadi, Tawfiq ^a   Cathers, Ian ^a   Hamdan Mansour, Ayman M ^b   Chow, Chin Moi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Arabic; Factorial analysis; Questionnaire; Stress; Translation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; SAUDI ARABIA; VALIDATION STUDY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SAUDI ARABIA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84855903506     PISSN: 00207489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2011.07.012     Document Type: Article

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