%0 Journal Article
%T Construct validity of the Depression and Somatic Symptoms Scale: evaluation by Mokken scale analysis
%A Chia-Yih Liu
%A Chin-Pang Lee
%A Ching-I Hung
%A Ya-Hsin Chou
%J Archive of "Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment".
%D 2017
%R 10.2147/NDT.S118825
%X Previous studies of the Depression and Somatic Symptoms Scale (DSSS), a free scale, have been based on the classical test theory, and the construct validity and dimensionality of the DSSS are as yet uncertain. The aim of this study was to use Mokken scale analysis (MSA) to assess the dimensionality of the DSSS
%K depression
%K somatization
%K Mokken scale analysis
%K item response theory
%K construct validity
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5279824/