Table 3.

Statistics for the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale items in the one-factor model in standard order of administration

Item	Subscale	Mean (SD)	Item-total correlation	Standardized factor loadings
1	Stress	0.44 (0.68)	0.45	0.51
2	Anxiety	0.56 (0.81)	0.56	0.60
3	Depression	0.56 (0.80)	0.65	0.70
4	Anxiety	0.41 (0.73)	0.59	0.69
5	Depression	0.60 (0.82)	0.66	0.70
6	Stress	0.67 (0.84)	0.64	0.65
7	Anxiety	0.49 (0.79)	0.57	0.66
8	Stress	0.56 (0.83)	0.61	0.67
9	Anxiety	0.58 (0.81)	0.66	0.73
10	Depression	0.55 (0.85)	0.65	0.73
11	Stress	0.56 (0.80)	0.72	0.79
12	Stress	0.52 (0.80)	0.62	0.72
13	Depression	0.59 (0.81)	0.67	0.73
14	Stress	0.61 (0.81)	0.65	0.71
15	Anxiety	0.52 (0.81)	0.65	0.74
16	Depression	0.55 (0.81)	0.65	0.74
17	Depression	0.51 (0.81)	0.63	0.76
18	Stress	0.60 (0.83)	0.63	0.69
19	Anxiety	0.50 (0.79)	0.61	0.70
20	Anxiety	0.52 (0.80)	0.64	0.75
21	Depression	0.56 (0.90)	0.64	0.74

All item-total correlations and factor loadings significant at the P<0.001 level. SD – Standard deviation