Evaluating the Perceived Stress Scale among UK university students: implications for stress measurement and management

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 120-133

  Denovan, Andrew ^a   Dagnall, Neil ^a   Dhingra, Katie ^b   Grogan, Sarah ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; factorial invariance; Perceived Stress Scale; stress management; UK university students

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021142033     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2017.1340445     Document Type: Article

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