The Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale (STSS): Confirmatory Factor Analyses with a National Sample of Mental Health Social Workers

摘要: SUMMARY The Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale (STSS; Bride, Robinson, Yegidis, & Figley, 2004) is an easy to administer 17-itemself-report measure of secondary trauma. Bride et al. (2004) reported a three domains traumatic stress specifically associated with exposure trauma: intrusion, avoidance, and arousal. STSS was have high levels internal consistency reliability indicated evidence convergent, discriminant, factorial validity. purpose this paper examine the validity national, random sample mental health social workers. To assess fit data three-factor structure proposed by al., confirmatory factor analysis performed on from 275 workers who client model adequately although intercorrelations strongly suggest unidimensional scale. Subsequent scale ...