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Depression anxiety stress scale: is it valid for children and adolescents?

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Patrick, Jeff, Dyck, Murray, Bramston, Paul·2010·Journal of Clinical Psychology

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The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995) is used to assess the severity of symptoms in child and adolescent samples although its validity in these populations has not been demonstrated. The authors assessed the latent structure of the 21‐item version of the scale in samples of 425 and 285 children and adolescents on two occasions, one year apart. On each occasion, parallel analyses suggested that only one component should be extracted, indicating that the test does not differentiate depression, anxiety, and stress in children and adolescents. The results provide additional evidence that adult models of depression do not describe the experience of depression in children and adolescents. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol: 66:1–12, 2010.

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  • The symptom measure selected has been used and validated in a non-clinical adolescent population.

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    From Acceptance and commitment therapy universal prevention program for adolescents: a feasibility study. (2017) · cites this paper as [47]

    The Participants and Procedure section describes a community sample that included adolescents, and the Results section assesses the DASS-21 in that sample. But the Abstract reports that the scale did not differentiate depression, anxiety, and stress in children and adolescents. The paper supports its use and evaluation in a non-clinical adolescent population, not an unqualified claim that it was validated for that population. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  1. Finch, A. J., Lipovsky, J. A., & Casat, C. D. (1989). Anxiety & depression in children & adolescents: Negative affectivity or separate constructs? In P. C. Kendall & D. Watson (Eds.), Anxiety & depression: Distinctive & overlapping features. New York, NY: Academic Press.

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Authors
Patrick, J., Dyck, M., & Bramston, P.
Affiliations
  • University of Southern Queensland (AU)
  • Griffith University (AU)
Corresponding author
Patrick, Jeff
Venue
Journal of Clinical Psychology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2010-08-02
Volume
66
Issue
9
Pages
996-1007
ISSN
  • 0021-9762 (ISSN-L)
  • 1097-4679
OpenAlex
W2098938417
Cited by
113
References
38
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FWCI
1.41
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • University of Southern Queensland ePrints (University of Southern Queensland) (acceptedVersion)
  • eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
Funders
Queensland Health
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
Keywords
DASS, children, adolescents, psychometric validity, latent structure, depression, anxiety, stress, parallel analysis, factor structure
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Age Factors, Anxiety, Child, Depression, Depressive Disorder, Major, Major Depressive Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Male, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Psychometrics, Sex Factors, Stress, Psychological, Reproducibility of Results

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