ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2025
The Depression Anxiety Stress Scales for Youth (DASS-Y): evidence of validity and cross-national and gender measurement invariance.
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- Longitudinal Evidence for Age- and Sex-Invariant Dimensions of Internalizing Symptoms from Childhood through Adolescence: Self-Worth, Social Anxiety, and Withdrawal.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Preliminary Psychometric Validation of the Greek Version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales for Youth (DASS-Y).Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Diagnostic Accuracy of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale for Youth (DASS-Y) Indonesian Version for Screening Internalizing Disorders Among Adolescents.Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Article
- Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the depression anxiety stress scale for youth (DASS-Y) in psychiatric and non-psychiatric samples.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Assessing stress, anxiety, and depression in children and adolescents: Validation of the DASS-Y in Poland.PloS one · 2025Article
- Validation and Reliability of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale for Youth (DASS-Y) Indonesian Version.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
- Validation and psychometric properties of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale for Youth in Chinese adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Bottled Up and Breaking: The Impact of Masculine Norms on Emotional Expression and Psychological Distress in Adolescent Boys.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
The Depression Anxiety Stress Scales for Youth (DASS-Y) is a recently developed measure of unpleasant emotional experiences for children and adolescents; however, the evidence for its validity is still limited. The present study evaluated the evidence for the structural, convergent, and incremental validity of the DASS-Y on a sample of Serbian adolescents aged 15-19 years (N = 421; 48% female, mean age = 16.86). Measurement invariance across gender and two countries (Serbia and Australia) was also tested. The findings supported the bifactor exploratory structural equation modeling (bifactor-ESEM) representation of the DASS-Y, which includes the General factor of negative affect/emotional distress, and three specific factors of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress. The DASS-Y factors showed evidence of incremental validity in predicting global externalizing symptoms and demonstrated convergent validity in relation to measures of global internalizing and externalizing symptoms as well as subjective well-being. The bifactor-ESEM model of the DASS-Y was found to be invariant across gender and two countries. The present study findings highlight the importance of distinguishing between general and specific components of unpleasant emotional states.
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