An In-Depth Analysis of the Perceived Stress Scale Among College Freshmen and Transfer Students

Meng Ting Lo; Andrew H. Perry; Rebecca Berenbon

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An In-Depth Analysis of the Perceived Stress Scale Among College Freshmen and Transfer Students

Meng Ting Lo^*, Andrew H. Perry, Rebecca Berenbon

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The PSS10 has been used widely and is helpful to identify at-risk individuals for clinical mental illness such that timely early intervention can be provided. Directions for applying PSS10 with college freshmen and transfer students are suggested noting several non-negligible psychometric concerns including gender bias and violation of ordinality assumption.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	286-302
Number of pages	17
Journal	Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development
Volume	55
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/07481756.2022.2034479
State	Published - 2022

Keywords

differential item functioning
item response tree models
Perceived stress
Rasch analysis

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