Algaralleh Abdulnaser, Altwalbeh Diala, Alzayyat Abdulkarim
Department of Counseling and Special Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Mutah University, Mutah, Jordan.
Department of Allied Medical Sciences, Faculty of Karak, Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt, Jordan.
J Multidiscip Healthc. 2019 Sep 18;12:777-787. doi: 10.2147/JMDH.S214456. eCollection 2019.
Nursing is known to be a stressful profession, as it necessitates constant interaction with different individuals in an environment that is described as highly stressed. The stress phenomenon mainly affects the students of nursing more than other health-related students. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), which is developed by Sheu and colleagues represents the most implemented instrument to examine stress among nursing students that belong to different cultures in different countries. Previous studies have not fully examined the psychometric properties of the PSS, especially in the Arab World. Therefore, this study aims to assess the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of Sheu and colleagues Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), which is used to measure the clinical stress among nursing students.
This methodological study utilized a cross-sectional design to test the PSS preliminary psychometric properties among 320 nursing students at 5 Jordanian universities.
The Arabic version of the PSS showed high internal consistency reliability (Cronbach's α was 0.90 in addition to an excellent content validity (CVI was 0.94). The exploratory factor analysis indicated that 54.54% of the total variance was accounted for by the five factors model, which confirmed the construct validity of the Arabic version of PSS. The findings of this study revealed that the Arabic version of PSS can be appropriately implemented among nursing students.
This study supports and recommends the use of the Arabic version of PSS to measure clinical stress among nursing students at Jordanian Universities.
众所周知，护理是一项压力很大的职业，因为它需要在一个被描述为压力极大的环境中不断与不同的人互动。压力现象对护理专业学生的影响比对其他健康相关专业学生的影响更大。由Sheu及其同事开发的感知压力量表（PSS）是在不同国家对不同文化背景的护理专业学生进行压力测试时使用最广泛的工具。以往的研究尚未充分检验PSS的心理测量特性，尤其是在阿拉伯世界。因此，本研究旨在评估Sheu及其同事的感知压力量表（PSS）阿拉伯语版本的心理测量特性，该量表用于测量护理专业学生的临床压力。
本方法学研究采用横断面设计，对约旦5所大学的320名护理专业学生进行PSS初步心理测量特性测试。
PSS阿拉伯语版本显示出较高的内部一致性信度（Cronbach's α为0.90）以及出色的内容效度（CVI为0.94）。探索性因素分析表明，五因素模型解释了总方差的54.54%，这证实了PSS阿拉伯语版本的结构效度。本研究结果表明，PSS阿拉伯语版本可在护理专业学生中适当应用。
本研究支持并建议使用PSS阿拉伯语版本来测量约旦大学护理专业学生的临床压力。
