Validation and Adaptation of Perception of Academic Stress Scale

Abstract

The study was conducted for the validation and adaptation of the perception of academic stress scale. Translation of 18 items of PAS was competed through a committee that was consisted of three members who had the expertise in bilingual and possessed efficiency or command over the understanding of English and Urdu langue, and they had awareness about the culture of Pakistan in the perspective of every dimension. Translated version of PASS was administered on 120 students. The internal consistency reliability of the PASS was 0.8 (Cronbach’ alpha), there was evidence for correlation between the factors of PASS and item to total correlation