The structure of negative emotional states: Comparison of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) with the Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories

Lovibond, Peter F.; Lovibond, S. H.

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“…EDE-Q demonstrated good psychometric properties (α = .94, for both the original [44] and the Portuguese versions [45]). [46,47]. The DASS-21, a short version of DASS-42, is a self-report measure that accesses three negative emotional symptoms: (1) In this study's analysis we only used the depression subscale, which ranges from 0 to 7 points, with higher scores indicating higher depressive symptomatology.…”

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Seeking a perfect body look: feeding the pathogenic impact of shame?

Marta‐Simões

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2015

Eat Weight Disord

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Shame feelings often lead individuals to adopt compensatory mechanisms, such as the minimization of the public display or disclosure of mistakes and the active promotion of perfect qualities, conceptualized as perfectionistic self-presentation. Although perfectionism is considered a central characteristic of disordered eating, the investigation on the specific domain of body image-related perfectionistic self-presentation and on its relationship with psychopathology is still scarce.The main aim of the present study was exploring the moderator effect of body image-related perfectionistic self-presentation on the associations of shame with depressive symptomatology, and with eating psychopathology, in a sample of 487 women.Results revealed that body image-related perfectionistic self-presentation showed a significant moderator effect on the relationships of external shame with depressive symptomatology, and with eating psychopathology severity, exacerbating shame's impact on this psychopathological indices. These findings appear to offer important clinical and investigational implications, highlighting the maladaptive character of such body image-focused strategies.

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Seeking a perfect body look: feeding the pathogenic impact of shame?

Marta‐Simões

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2015

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“…Depression, anxiety and psychological stress were assessed using the DASS21 self-report instrument [28].…”

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Individual, physical and psychological risk factors for neck pain in Australian office workers: a 1-year longitudinal study

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Neck pain is more prevalent in office workers than in the general community. To date, findings from prospective studies that investigated causal relationships between putative risk factors and the onset of neck pain in this population have been limited by high loss to follow-up. The aim of this research was to prospectively evaluate a range of risk factors for neck pain in office workers, using validated and reliable objective measures as well as attain an estimate of 1-year incidence. We assembled a cohort of 53 office workers without neck pain and measured individual, physical, workplace and psychological factors at baseline. We followed participants for 1 year to measure the incidence of neck pain. We achieved 100% participant follow-up. Cox regression analysis was applied to examine the relationship between the putative risk factors and the cumulative incidence of neck pain. The 1-year incidence proportion of neck pain in Australian office workers was estimated in this study to be 0.49 (95% CI 0.36-0.62). Predictors of neck pain with moderate to large effect sizes were female gender (HR: 3.07; 95% CI: 1.18-7.99) and high psychological stress (HR: 1.64; 95% CI: 0.66-4.07). Protective factors included increased mobility of the cervical spine (HR: 0.44; 95% CI: 0.19-1.05) and frequent exercise (HR: 0.64; 95% CI: 0.27-1.51). These results reveal that neck pain is common in Australian office workers and that there are risk factors that are potentially modifiable.

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“…Participants were asked to rate how much a particular statement applied to them over the past week using a 4-point Likert scale ranging from 0 ('did not apply to me at all') to 3 (' applied to me very much'). The measure loads on three factors, each comprising seven items, including Depression (DASS-D), Anxiety (DASS-A), and Stress Reactivity (DASS-S (Clara, Cox, & Enns, 2001;Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995). Since the DASS-21 is a short version of the original 42-item scale, subscale scores were converted to full scale scores by multiplying by 2 as per Lovibond and Lovibond.…”

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“…In addition, PTSD is an affective disorder characterized by anxiety, depressive symptoms, hyperarousal, and restricted range of emotion (APA, 1994); therefore, we felt that it was important to examine the relationship between measures of PTSD symptom severity and both anxiety and depression, as well as to control for anxiety and depression in determining the unique relationship between negative cognitions and PTSD symptoms. The PTCI validation study relied on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI; Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979) and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI; Spielberger, 1983) to control for depression and anxiety, respectively; however, a large number of BDI items has been shown to assess somatic symptoms that are not necessarily specific to depression (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995), and the STAI has been shown to assess depressive symptoms (Bieling, Antony, & Swinson, 1998). To avoid these potential confounds, we utilized the Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scales-21 item version (DASS-21;Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995;Clara, Cox, & Enns, 2001), which has been shown to better assess symptoms specific to anxiety and depression (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995;Antony, Bieling, Cox, Enns, & Swinson, 1998;Brown, Chorpita, Korotitsch, & Barlow, 1997;Clara, Cox, & Enns, 2001).…”

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Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in trauma-exposed college students: The role of trauma-related cognitions, gender, and negative affect

Moser

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Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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Considerable evidence indicates a prominent role for trauma-related cognitions in the development and maintenance of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. The present study utilized regression analysis to examine the unique relationships between various trauma-related cognitions and PTSD symptoms after controlling for gender and measures of general affective distress in a large sample of trauma-exposed college students. In terms of trauma-related cognitions, only negative cognitions about the self were related to PTSD symptom severity. Gender and anxiety symptoms were also related to PTSD symptom severity. Theoretical implications of the results are discussed. KeywordsPosttraumatic Stress Disorder; PTSD; Cognitions; Anxiety; Trauma Exposure to traumatic events is quite common, with estimated lifetime rates ranging from 26% to 92.2% in men and from 17.7% to 87.1% in women (Breslau, Davis, Andreski, & Peterson, 1991;Breslau et al., 1999;Creamer, Burgess, & McFarlane, 2001;Kessler et al., 1995;Norris, 1992;Perkonigg, Kessler, Storz, & Wittchen, 2000;Resnick, Kilpatrick, Dansky, Saunders, & Best, 1993;Stein et al., 1997). Although many people experience trauma, only a subset of these individuals subsequently develops posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Lifetime prevalence rates for PTSD range from 1% to 12.3% (Breslau, Davis, Andreski, & Peterson, 1991;Davidson, Hughes, Blazer, & George, 1991;Kessler et al., 1995;Resnick et al., 1993) and current rates of PTSD range from .4% to .9% (Andrews et al., 2001;Perkonigg et al., 2000). PTSD tends to have a chronic course, with as many as 40% continuing to exhibit significant symptoms of the disorder 10 years after its onset (Kessler et al., 1995).Several theories underscore the role that cognitive variables play in the development and maintenance of PTSD (Ehlers & Clark, 2000; Epstien, 1991;Foa & Cahill, 2001;Foa & Jaycox, 1999;Foa & Riggs, 1993;Foa & Rothbaum, 1998;Horowitz, 1986;Janoff-Bulman, 1992;McCann & Pearlman, 1990;Resick & Schnicke, 1992). Utilizing the framework of emotional processing theory (Foa & Kozak, 1986), Foa and colleagues have emphasized the role of cognitions about the self and the world in natural recovery from trauma, the development of Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jason S. Moser, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE. Email: jmoser@psych.udel.edu. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. PTSD, and the CBT processes that ameliorate PTSD symptoms severity. The theory is rooted in information processing models of memory and psychop...

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The structure of negative emotional states: Comparison of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) with the Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories

Cited by 10,620 publications

References 15 publications

Seeking a perfect body look: feeding the pathogenic impact of shame?

Seeking a perfect body look: feeding the pathogenic impact of shame?

Individual, physical and psychological risk factors for neck pain in Australian office workers: a 1-year longitudinal study

Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in trauma-exposed college students: The role of trauma-related cognitions, gender, and negative affect

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