Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) psychometric properties in migrants and native Germans

BMC Psychiatry

Table 2 PSS item descriptives

Item		Natives	Migrants	Cohen’s d	t-test	p-value
Factor 1 PHS
1	M	1.19	1.23	−0.051	−0.87	0.381
	SD	0.92	0.98
	r_IT	0.55	0.59
2	M	0.88	1.01	−0.141	−2.38	0.017**
	SD	0.94	0.98
	r_IT	0.69	0.65
3	M	1.38	1.65	−0.266	−4.50	< 0.001**
	SD	0.98	1.07
	r_IT	0.59	0.52
6	M	1.00	1.10	−0.112	−1.89	0.057
	SD	0.93	0.94
	r_IT	0.67	0.69
9	M	1.59	1.71	−0.122	−2.06	0.039*
	SD	1.02	0.98
	r_IT	0.54	0.46
10	M	0.99	1.10	−0.105	− 1.77	0.076
	SD	0.98	1.05
	r_IT	0.73	0.70
Factor 2 PSES
4	M	1.37	1.52	−0.143	−2.42	0.015**
	SD	1.10	1.10
	r_IT	0.69	0.62
5	M	1.51	1.63	−0.119	−2.01	0.044*
	SD	1.02	1.00
	r_IT	0.69	0.65
7	M	1.40	1.52	−0.110	−1.85	0.063
	SD	1.07	1.05
	r_IT	0.67	0.71
8	M	1.14	1.28	−0.144	−2.43	0.015**
	SD	0.96	0.97
	r_IT	0.72	0.65
PHS	M	7.01	7.76	−0.172	−2.89	0.003***
PHS	SD	4.34	4.42
PSES	M	5.41	5.95	−0.157	−2.62	0.008***
PSES	SD	3.46	3.36

Note: Sample Size (N), mean (M), standard deviation (SD), item-rest correlation (r_IT). Sample size for items range between 2183 and 2195 for natives and 324–328 for migrants. Sig. difference shows the p-value of a two-tailed t-test and significance value * p < 0.1, **p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01. Effect size reports the Cohen’s d. Degrees of freedom for the t-tests varied between 2506 and 2518 due to missing data

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