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Adaptation and Validation of the Inventory of Everyday Hassles of Students in Romanian

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Students who are admitted to university have to get accustomed to and then assimilate the codes of their new life, progressively acquiring a new social status and a new identity. There is no tool in Romanian to measure students’ perceived stress. This article presents the results of a series of five studies to validate a scale of Everyday Hassles of Romanian Students. Seven hundred and seventy seven Romanian students enrolled in a university program either in Engineering or the Humanities participated in the studies. The results revealed that the questionnaire of Everyday Hassles of Romanian Students had a six-factor structure. It had acceptable reliability and validity values. With regard to reliability, its scales showed high levels of internal consistency and temporal stability over a time span of three weeks. The results seem equally encouraging in terms of validity. Further investigations, particularly studies of convergence and discrimination, are required to identify more precisely the construct validity of the tool.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Education and Teacher Training, Transilvania University of Brasov, 29 Eroilor Blvd, Brasov, Romania

    Mariela Pavalache-Ilie

  2. Department of Psychology, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, Nanterre, France

    Liliane Rioux

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Pavalache-Ilie, M., Rioux, L. Adaptation and Validation of the Inventory of Everyday Hassles of Students in Romanian. Curr Psychol 37, 740–747 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-016-9548-6

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