Psychometric properties of the Danish Parental Stress Scale: Rasch analysis in a sample of mothers with infants.

ABSTRACT: The Parental Stress Scale (PSS) was developed as a short measure of perceived stress resulting from being a parent. The current study examined the psychometric properties of the Danish version in a sample of 1110 mothers of children aged 0 to 12 months using Rasch models. Emphasis was placed on the issues of uni-dimensionality and absence of differential item functioning relative to the age and educational level of the mothers. Results showed that no adequate fit could be established for the full PSS scale with 18 dichotomized items. Further analyses showed that items 2 and 11 had to be eliminated from the scale, and that the remaining items did not make up a unidimensional PSS scale, but two subscales measuring different aspect of parental stress: a 9-item scale measuring parental stress

SUBMITTER: Pontoppidan M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6221275 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature