Evaluating the psychometric properties of the Chinese Depression Anxiety Stress Scale for Youth (DASS-Y) and DASS-21

Cao, Cui-hong; Liao, Xiao-ling; Gamble, Jeffrey H.; Li, Ling-ling; Jiang, Xing-Yong; Li, Xu-Dong; Griffiths, Mark D.; Chen, I-Hua; Lin, Chung-Ying

doi:10.1186/s13034-023-00655-2

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Table 3 Psychometric properties of DASS-Y in item level on primary and middle school students

From: Evaluating the psychometric properties of the Chinese Depression Anxiety Stress Scale for Youth (DASS-Y) and DASS-21

	Primary school students				Middle school students				DIF contrast
	Difficulty	Point-biserial	Infit MnSq	Outfit MnSq	Difficulty	Point-biserial	Infit MnSq	Outfit MnSq
Subscale of Depression (person separation reliability = 0.62 and 0.68)
1. I hated my life	-0.39	0.74	1.36	1.39	0.14	0.72	0.97	0.96	0.53
2. I hated myself	-0.06	0.74	0.85	0.85	0.54	0.69	0.93	0.87	0.60
3. I felt that life was terrible.	-0.29	0.78	0.81	0.81	0.03	0.75	0.86	0.85	0.32
4. I felt like I was no good	-0.21	0.76	0.82	0.85	-1.01	0.72	0.94	0.93	0.80
5. I could not stop feeling sad	-0.16	0.75	0.92	0.91	0.23	0.70	0.97	0.99	0.39
6. I did not enjoy anything	0.97	0.71	0.95	0.98	0.17	0.59	1.08	1.21	0.80
7. There was nothing nice I could look forward to.	0.12	0.69	1.29	1.38	-0.09	0.63	1.26	1.33	0.21
Subscale of Anxiety (person separation reliability = 0.62 and 0.54)
8. I felt like I was about to panic	-0.20	0.77	1.01	0.99	-0.32	0.71	0.97	0.95	0.12
9. I felt terrified	-0.49	0.80	0.92	0.88	-0.12	0.71	0.89	0.85	0.37
10. I felt scared for no good reason	-0.69	0.78	1.09	1.09	-0.36	0.63	0.95	0.93	0.33
11. I could feel my heart beating	-0.29	0.77	1.02	1.06	-0.04	0.67	1.06	1.04	0.25
12. I had trouble breathing	1.19	0.69	0.99	1.02	0.68	0.58	1.03	1.02	0.51
13. My hands felt shaky	0.05	0.73	1.00	1.02	-0.59	0.64	1.04	1.03	0.64
14. I felt dizzy, like I was about to faint	0.44	0.71	0.92	1.03	0.74	0.57	1.08	1.19	0.30
Subscale of Stress (person separation reliability = 0.71 and 0.75)
15. I got upset about little things	-0.16	0.79	1.02	1.01	-0.53	0.73	0.96	0.95	0.37
16. I was easily irritated	-0.63	0.79	1.06	1.05	0.11	0.68	1.01	0.98	0.74
17. I found myself over-reacting to situations	0.20	0.76	0.99	0.97	0.24	0.68	0.96	0.98	0.04
18. I was easily annoyed	0.08	0.82	0.76	0.72	-0.23	0.75	0.82	0.81	0.31
19. I was stressing about lots of things	0.27	0.78	0.93	0.89	-0.09	0.73	0.88	0.88	0.36
20. I got annoyed when people interrupted	-0.45	0.74	1.28	1.30	0.05	0.63	1.21	1.26	0.50
21. I found it difficult to relax	0.69	0.72	0.94	0.88	0.47	0.60	1.17	1.23	0.22

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