The Poverty-Related Stress Scale: Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Measure Assessing Poverty-Related Stressors

Table 3

(a) Study 1: descriptive statistics and Pearson correlations

No.	Factor	Valid ()	Mean	Std. deviation	Variance	Skewness	Kurtosis	Shapiro-Wilk	1	2	3
1	Poverty-related stress	206	2.15	0.69	0.48	0.16	-0.96	0.97	—
2	Noise disturbance	206	2.11	0.78	0.61	0.28	-0.84	0.95	0.88	—
3	Home dysfunction	206	1.80	0.81	0.66	0.83	-0.52	0.87	0.87	0.71	—
4	Financial distress	206	0.83	0.83	0.69	-0.16	-0.80	0.96	0.82	0.58	0.53

Note: All correlations were significant at the .01 level. Mean scores were created and used.

(b) Study 2: descriptive statistics and Pearson correlations

No.	Factor	Valid ()	Mean	Std. deviation	Variance	Skewness	Kurtosis	Shapiro-Wilk	1	2	3
1	Poverty-related stress	400	0	0.91	0.84	0.81	-0.22	0.92	—
2	Noise disturbance	400	0	0.95	0.90	0.58	-0.60	0.94	0.94	—
3	Home dysfunction	400	0	0.96	0.92	1.02	-0.03	0.86	0.97	0.84	—
4	Financial distress	400	0	0.91	0.83	0.00	-0.85	0.98	0.61	0.52	0.53

Note: All correlations were significant at the .01 level. Mean scores were created and used.

(c) Study 3: descriptive statistics and Pearson correlations

No.	Factor	Valid ()	Std. dev	Var.	Skew.	Kurt.	Shapiro-Wilk	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Time 1
1	Poverty-related stress	470	0.98	0.96	0.91	-0.39	0.86	--
2	Noise disturbance	470	0.95	0.91	0.82	-0.46	0.89	0.96	--
3	Home dysfunction	470	0.97	0.93	1.05	-0.41	0.77	0.95	0.90	--
4	Financial distress	470	0.95	0.90	0.54	-0.87	0.91	0.88	0.84	0.81	--
5	Depression	470	0.63	0.40	0.79	-0.59	0.87	0.91	0.85	0.81	0.83	—
6	Anxiety	470	0.61	0.37	0.75	-0.75	0.86	0.95	0.89	0.86	0.84	0.94	—
7	Flourishing	470	1.24	1.54	-0.95	0.85	0.94	-0.13	-0.11	-0.11	-0.20	-0.31	-0.25	—
Time 2
8	Poverty-related stress	219	0.96	0.92	0.86	-0.57	0.86	0.97	0.95	0.94	0.87	0.85	0.92	-0.16	--
9	Noise disturbance	219	1.21	1.45	0.75	-0.67	0.88	0.93	0.91	0.88	0.80	0.79	0.86	-0.18	0.95	--
10	Home dysfunction	219	1.14	1.31	1.07	-0.13	0.80	0.95	0.91	0.93	0.80	0.80	0.87	-0.13	0.96	0.92	--
11	Financial distress	219	1.07	1.13	0.72	-0.74	0.89	0.95	0.92	0.89	0.87	0.83	0.89	-0.17	0.96	0.91	0.91	--
12	Depression	219	0.52	0.27	0.76	-0.69	0.87	0.85	0.78	0.75	0.76	0.95	0.91	-0.32	0.85	0.80	0.79	0.83	—
13	Anxiety	219	0.78	0.61	0.81	-0.63	0.86	0.92	0.86	0.84	0.81	0.93	0.98	-0.21	0.93	0.88	0.88	0.90	0.95	—
14	Flourishing	219	1.14	1.30	-1.21	1.89	0.92	-0.07	-0.05	-0.02	-0.13	-0.32	-0.21	0.92	-0.07	-0.08	-0.02	-0.09	-0.35	-0.18

Bold = nonstatistically significant (). Note: factor scores were created and used.