Translation and validation of the Malay version of the short-form DASS-21 for the epidemiology survey of working population

作     者：Edimansyah Abdin Rusli Nordin Lin Naing Edimansyah Abdin;Dusli Nordin;Lin Naing

作者机构：Institute of Mental HealthBuangkok View Medical Park Johor Clinical SchoolSchool of Medicine and Health SciencesMalaysia Monash University Institute of MedicineUniversiti Brunei Darussalam 

出 版 物：《海南医学院学报》 (Journal of Hainan Medical University)

年 卷 期：2010年第16卷第3期

页      面：300-303页

学科分类：12[管理学] 120202[管理学-企业管理（含：财务管理、市场营销、人力资源管理）] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 1202[管理学-工商管理] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 

基　　金：support from the IRPA research grant of the Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation(MOSTI) in the Eighth Malaysia Plan(8-MP) budget(project no:06-02-05-2079-PR0061/09-03) 

主　　题：管理学 职业 焦虑 情绪 

摘      要：Increasing occurrences of mental health problems such as depression,anxiety and stress amongst workers presents practical demands for employers and occupational health practitioners to assess the self-perceived depression,anxiety and stress in workers with reliable and valid *** present study aims to validate the Malay version of the short form Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21) among Malaysian workers designed to screen the self-reported of depression,anxiety and stress among workers in ***-eight workers of two major automotive assembly plants in Pekan,Pahang consented to participate in the study and was administered the Malay version of the *** (English-Malay) and back translation (Malay-English) of the DASS-21 was made to ensure the face validity of the *** was determined using Cronbach s alpha for internal consistency whilst construct validity was assessed using the exploratory factor analysis (principal component analysis with varimax rotation).The results indicated that the Cronbach s alpha coefficients were acceptable for DASS-Depression (0.81),DASS-Anxiety (0.85) and DASS-Stress (0.85).Exploratory factor analysis showed three meaningful common factors that could explain the three theoretical dimensions or constructs of the *** validation study suggests that the Malay version of DASS-21 is reliable and valid screening instruments for assessing self-reported depression,anxiety and stress in Malaysian working population.