RT Journal Article
T1 Psychometric properties of the perceived stress scale (pss-10) with breast cancer patients
A1 Soria-Reyes, Lorena M.
A1 Cerezo-Guzmán, María Victoria
A1 Alarcón-Postigo, Rafael
A1 Blanca-Mena, María José
K1 Cáncer
AB Breast cancer diagnosisis one of the most difficult events that a woman canexperienceduring her life and it usually produceshigh levels of stress. Globalmeasuresof perceivedstress are useful for screeningand for comparingstresslevels between cancer patients and other clinical and nonclinicalpopulations.Onesuch instrumentthat is widely used is the PerceivedStress Scale (pss‐10),  but itspsychometricpropertieshave scarcely been analysed with breast cancer patients.Theaimofthisstudywastoprovidevalidityevidenceregardingtheuseofthe10‐itemversionofthepss‐10  asatoolformeasuringperceivedstressinthiscontext.Participantswere 215 Spanish breast cancer patients who completedthe PSS‐10andthe DASS‐21,a measureofaffective distress(depression,anxiety,andstress).The internal structureof the PSS‐10  was examinedthrough confirmatoryfactoranalysis (CFA), and the reliabilityof test scores was estimatedusing McDonald'somegacoefficient.Validityevidencebasedonrelationshipswithothervariableswasalsoobtainedusingcorrelationanalysis.TheCFAsupportedacorrelatedtwo‐factorstructure:perceivedhelplessness(sixnegativelywordeditems)andperceivedself‐efficacy (four positivelyworded items). Reliabilitycoefficientsfor scores on thesetwofactorswere0.87and0.73,respectively.Scoresonaffectivedistress(DASS‐21)werestronglyandpositivelycorrelatedwithperceivedhelplessnessandmoderatelyand negativelycorrelatedwith perceivedself‐efficacy.The PSS‐10  is an adequatetool for measuringperceivedstress in the breast cancer context and it may beusefulfor identifyingwomenat riskofpsychologicalmaladjustment.
PB Wiley
YR 2022
FD 2022-06-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24672
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24672
LA eng
NO Soria-Reyes, L. M., Cerezo, M. V., Alarcón, R., & Blanca, M. J. (2022). Psychometric properties of the perceived stress scale (pss-10) with breast cancer patients. Stress and Health, 1– 10. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3170
NO Fundingfor open access charge: Universidad de Málaga/CBUA
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026