title: The Chinese Parental Stress Scale: psychometric evidence using Rasch modeling on clinical and nonclinical samples.
abstract: In this study, we examined the psychometric properties of the Parental Stress Scale (PSS; Berry & Jones, 1995) with Chinese parents. Participants included 162 parents recruited through primary schools and 38 parents with children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Rasch analysis results indicated that 2 items were outside the accepted fit statistics range and that the Likert scale response categories were not functioning properly. We identified a reduced 16-item scale with 5 categories as unidimensional, with a person reliability of .86; the Likert scale response categories worked well. The revised PSS correlated with measures of child behavior and parenting stress and could differentiate between the 2 groups of parents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, leung.cynthia@polyu.edu.hk
authors.forename: Cynthia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Leung
authors.forename: Sandra K M
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Tsang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D011594:Psychometrics; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000208:ethnology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires