Validation of the Perceived Stress Scale in a community sample of older adults

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 645-652

  Ezzati, Ali ^a   Jiang, Julie ^a   Katz, Mindy J ^a   Sliwinski, Martin J ^b   Zimmerman, Molly E ^a   Lipton, Richard B ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coping; distress; older adults; Perceived Stress Scale; psychometric properties

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEIVED STRESS SCALE; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT SCHEDULE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; STRESS; VALIDITY; AGING; DIAGNOSIS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MENTAL STRESS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84899925713     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.4049     Document Type: Article

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