Table 2.
Descriptive statistics, item-Factor correlations, and Communality of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10 & PSS-4) in Ethiopian university students
| Perceived Stress Scale items | Item-Factor score Correlation# | Communality | Percentage distribution of Item scores | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSS-10 | PSS-4 | PSS-10 | PSS-4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Factor-1 | Factor-2 | Factor-1 | Factor-2 | ||||||||
| Item-1 | .66* | .41 | 21.0 | 17.9 | 40.2 | 12.7 | 8.3 | ||||
| Item-2 | .70* | .83* | .48 | .35 | 16.8 | 20.5 | 37.0 | 15.8 | 9.8 | ||
| Item-3 | .65* | .37 | 19.4 | 18.7 | 36.3 | 17.4 | 8.3 | ||||
| Item-4 | .68* | .83* | .26 | .08 | 20.2 | 29.0 | 26.2 | 11.9 | 12.7 | ||
| Item-5 | .67* | .75* | .38 | .20 | 9.1 | 25.6 | 38.1 | 16.6 | 10.6 | ||
| Item-6 | .62* | .32 | 16.1 | 22.8 | 32.1 | 22.5 | 6.5 | ||||
| Item-7 | .69* | .45 | 14.2 | 31.1 | 32.1 | 13.0 | 9.6 | ||||
| Item-8 | .67* | .35 | 9.8 | 23.1 | 35.0 | 20.5 | 11.7 | ||||
| Item-9 | .68* | .44 | 16.1 | 15.0 | 39.1 | 19.2 | 10.6 | ||||
| Item-10 | .66* | .80* | .42 | .36 | 15.8 | 27.5 | 33.7 | 16.3 | 6.7 | ||
#Spearman’s correlation coefficient
*p < 0.01
Items of PSS-10: Item-1 to Item-10
Items of PSS-4: items-2, 4, 5 and 10