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Oronoz, Beatriz; Alonso-Arbiol, Itziar; Balluerka, Nekane

A Spanish adaptation of the Parental Stress Scale
Psicothema, vol. 19, núm. 4, 2007, pp. 687-692
Universidad de Oviedo
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A Spanish adaptation of the Parental Stress Scale

Beatriz Oronoz, Itziar Alonso-Arbiol and Nekane Balluerka

Universidad del País Vasco

As a specific measure to assess levels of parental stress is lacking in Spain, the aim of this study was
to develop the Spanish version of the Parental Stress Scale (PSS). After translating it from English in-
to Spanish using the forward-backward translation method, it was administered to a sample of 211
first-time parents (105 males and 106 females). A factor analysis was carried out to assess its dimen-
sionality. After refining the scale, we obtained a two-factor solution that accounted for 33.5% of the
variance, with the factors Stressors and Parenting Rewards. No gender differences were found either
in the scale or in the dimensions. Criterion-related validity was tested by means of correlations with
anxiety and depressive symptoms and, with regard to internal consistency, adequate alpha coefficients
were obtained for both factors.

Adaptación española de la Escala de Estrés Parental. Ante la inexistencia de un instrumento especí-

fico para la medición de los niveles de estrés parental en España, el objetivo del presente estudio fue
desarrollar la versión española de la Escala de Estrés Parental (PSS en el original). Tras utilizar el pro-
cedimiento de traducción (inglés-español) y traducción inversa (español-inglés), para traducir el ins-
trumento, éste fue administrado a 211 progenitores primerizos (105 hombres y 106 mujeres). Se llevó
a cabo un análisis factorial para evaluar su dimensionalidad. Tras el cribado inicial, se obtuvo una so-
lución de dos factores, Estresores y Recompensas por el bebé, la cual explicaba el 33,5% de la va-
riancia. No se encontraron diferencias de género ni en la escala ni en sus dimensiones. La validez re-
ferida a un criterio fue evaluada a través de las correlaciones con sintomatología ansiosa y depresiva
y, en cuanto a la consistencia interna, se obtuvieron coeficientes alpha adecuados para ambos factores.

The birth of the first baby is one of the events that most review, see Lessenberry & Rehfeldt, 2004). Among those specific
influence exerts over the couple dynamics. As the first baby measures for parental stress used in English, we may highlight
comes, couples should face several changes that remarkably affect both Parenting Stress Index (PSI; Abidin, 1995) and Parental
different areas of their lives (personal, marital, family, and work). Stress Scale (PSS; Berry & Jones, 1995) because of their adequate
Thus, in the process of adapting to this new role, both members of psychometric properties. Although no full psychometric
the couple, but especially women, may experience high levels of properties are provided, a Spanish adaptation of the PSI scale has
stress (Belsky, Lang, & Rovine, 1985; Berry & Jones, 1995; already been used with a sample of mothers of autistics (Pozo,
Coltrane, 2000; Cox, 1985; Yogev, 1986). As a consequence of Sarriá, & Méndez, 2006). Nevertheless, the use of the PSS (Berry
these stress levels, the transition to parenthood might be more & Jones, 1995) is especially recommended because it displays
difficult, and psychological problems may arise at different levels: better applicability: a) being a shorter and more easily
individual, couple relationship, and relationship with the baby. understandable self-report, and b) covering parents’ stress levels
An early detection of a couple’s difficulties due to high levels even from childbirth. The Parental Stress Scale is an assessment
of stress may help us to prevent more serious consequences in tool designed to measure the level of stress that parents experience
terms of each partner’s psychological health —depressive and as a result of having to rear children. It focuses specifically on the
anxiety symptoms— (Garret, 2003; Windle & Dumenci, 1997), in stress generated by the parenting role, as opposed to other
the couple relationship (Lavee, Sharlin, & Katz, 1996), and in the instruments that fail to separate parenting stress from the stress
baby’s welfare (Benzies, Harrison, & Magill-Evans, 2004). In this that be a result of other roles and situations, such as financial or
context, it is necessary to obtain valid and reliable assessment marital problems, or to those instruments that assess the stress
tools of new parents’ stress. generated by the parenting role only in a very specific situation
The measurement of parents’ stress levels has been (i.e., during child hospitalization, Ochoa, Repáraz, & Polaino-
traditionally carried out with different assessment tools (for a Lorente, 1997). The PSS is made up of 18 items rated on a Likert-
type scale that describe the parent-child relationship and how each
parent feels about it.
Fecha recepción: 2-10-06 • Fecha aceptación: 9-4-07 Regardless of the existence of reliable assessment tools in
Correspondencia: Itziar Alonso-Arbiol English, we do not have a specific measure of parental stress in
Facultad de Psicología
Spanish. Therefore, the aim of this study is to adapt the PSS to
Universidad del País Vasco
20018 Donostia (Spain) Spanish so that it can be used confidently with Spanish-speaking
E-mail: itziar.alonso@ehu.es people.
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Method (item 16, ‘Having a child(ren) has meant having too few choices
and too little control over my life’) was considered by the
Participants researchers as too vague and ambiguous, a 17-item Spanish
version was considered for the translation phase. In order to
The sample comprised 211 married or cohabiting heterosexual increase linguistic equivalence between the existing English-
participants living in Gipuzkoa (Spain) —both members of the language PSS and the new Spanish-language PSS, a forward-
couple in 106 dyads1— who had a baby between 3 and 8 months backward translation method was used. Each English item was
(M= 5.37; SD= .72). The mean for the total time living with their translated into Spanish by a bilingual researcher familiar with the
partner was 4.7 years (SD= 2.65), and age ranged from 20 to 39 field of parental stress. A bilingual linguist familiar with both
years (M= 31.5; SD= 3.46) for women, and from 24 to 53 (M= societies and parenting process then translated the proposed
33.4; SD= 4.40) for men. As for work status, 84% of women and Spanish-language items back into English. The two translations
98% of men were paid workers. were compared, discussed, and reduced to a single mutually
agreeable wording, and carefully examined by us to determine
PSS Item Forward-Backward Translation whether the items seemed to be essentially the same as the
English-language originals.
Before translating the items of a questionnaire into another Some small changes were made during this process to adjust
language to be used in a country with its own culture, conceptual the items’ ability to fit into contemporary Spanish. For example,
equivalence and content equivalence of the underlying construct we used the wording «padre/madre» (father/mother) when
should be considered. Conceptual equivalence refers to having «parent» was used in English items, because the exact translation
similar meanings in different cultures (Flaherty, Gaviria, Pathak, for this gender-neutral term (progenitor) would have sounded too
Mitchell, Wintrob, Richman, & Birz, 1988). Two researchers who formal for the context in Spanish (see items 1, 15, and 17).
are experts in the field agreed that the meaning of the parental Another change took place in item 13, where «incómodo»
stress construct underlying the PSS scale was meaningful in (uncomfortable) was preferred in the Spanish version instead of
Spanish culture. the exact equivalent word (embarazoso) for «embarrassing» from
Content equivalence is established by showing that the content the English version. The final wordings of all items are shown in
of each item is relevant to the culture being considered and likely Table 1.
to have similar meanings in both cultural contexts. In our case, Once the item wording had been decided, the items were placed
two bilingual researchers who were fluent in both English and in a questionnaire format in which participants were asked to rate
Spanish and were involved in the back-translation process each one on a 1-to-5 Likert-type response scale ranging from 1
evaluated the content equivalence of each item. All 18 items of (strongly disagree [totalmente en desacuerdo]) to 5 (strongly agree
the existing English-language PSS were thought to be relevant to [totalmente de acuerdo]). The items appeared in the same order as
parenting stress relationships in Spain but, since one of them in the English-language PSS (except for the eliminated item).

Table 1
Factor weights of items from the factor analysis of generalized least-squares estimation with oblimin rotation

Factors
Item 1 2 3

01. Me siento feliz en mi papel como padre/madre (R) -.034 .051 -.706
02. No hay nada o casi nada que no haría por mi hijo/a si fuera necesario (R) (D) .018 -.096 -.248
03. Atender a mi hijo/a a veces me quita más tiempo y energía de la que tengo .107 .635 .139
04. A veces me preocupa el hecho de si estoy haciendo lo suficiente por mi hijo/a (D) -.115 .252 .001
05. Me siento muy cercano/a a mi hijo/a (R) .189 -.008 -.313
06. Disfruto pasando tiempo con mi hijo/a (R) .388 .090 -.458
07. Mi hijo/a es una fuente importante de afecto para mí (R) (D) .954 -.013 -.095
08. Tener un hijo/a me da una visión más certera y optimista para el futuro (R) (D) .165 .207 -.191
09. La mayor fuente de estrés en mi vida es mi hijo/a .112 .620 -.032
10. Tener un hijo/a deja poco tiempo y flexibilidad en mi vida .045 .674 -.011
11. Tener un hijo/a ha supuesto una carga financiera -.043 .350 .077
12. Me resulta difícil equilibrar diferentes responsabilidades debido a mi hijo/a .005 .649 -.083
13. El comportamiento de mi hijo/a a menudo me resulta incómodo o estresante -.059 .570 -.205
14. Si tuviera que hacerlo de nuevo, podría decidir no tener un hijo/a (D) .115 .172 -.011
15. Me siento abrumado/a por la responsabilidad de ser padre/madre .029 .422 -.137
16. Me siento satisfecho/a como padre/madre (R) -.005 .186 -.792
17. Disfruto de mi hijo/a (R) -.032 .103 -.726

Note: R= Reversed, D= Deleted

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Instruments and psychometric problems, they were neither reformulated nor

administered in the experimental phase of the study.
Parental Stress Scale (PSS; Berry & Jones, 1995). The level of After signing the informed agreement and receiving instructions
parental stress was evaluated by means of the Spanish version of from a trained interviewer, both members of the couple filled in the
the PSS scale which, in a preliminary version, consisted of 15 questionnaires individually. There was no time limit.
items rated on a 5-point Likert scale. The total score was obtained
by summing up the value for each item (reversed items are shown Results
in Table 1). A higher score indicates a higher level of parental
stress. Exploratory Factor Analysis
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI; Beck, Ward, Mendelson,
Mock, & Erbaugh, 1961; Conde, Esteban, & Useros, 1976). The In order to examine the dimensionality of the questionnaire, a
BDI is a 21 item self-report rating inventory measuring factor analysis of generalized least-squares estimation with
characteristic attitudes and symptoms of depression. Each item has oblimin rotation was conducted. Prior to the analysis, the Kaiser-
4 sentences (scored from 0 to 3), referring to how the participant Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measure of sampling adequacy and the
has felt over the last week («I am no more irritated by things than Bartlett sphericity test were calculated. KMO index showed a
I ever am», «I am slightly more irritated now than usual», «I am value of .83, which may be considered acceptable, and the Bartlett
quite annoyed or irritated a good deal of the time», «I feel irritated test proved to be statistically significant, χ2 (105)= 879.46,
all the time now»). The total score may range from 0 to 63. A p<.001. Therefore, the factor analysis was considered appropriate.
higher score indicates a higher level of depressive symptoms. The The factor analysis was successively conducted with 1, 2 and 3
internal consistency for this sample was alpha= .79. factors, yielding only a good model fit with 3 factors according to
State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI; Spielberger, Gorsuch, & the chi-square statistic index (X2 (63)= 71.8, p= .21) —namely,
Lushene, 1970, 1994). The STAI is a self-report inventory being statistically significant for the model of 1 and 2 factors, and
developed to measure both state and trait anxiety but only the non-significant for the model of 3 factors— (factor loadings for
STAI-E (state anxiety) was administered in this study. The STAI- the three-factor solution are shown in Table 1).
E scale contains 20 items, which are evaluated on a 4-point Likert Nevertheless, the first factor contained only one item (item 7).
scale («I feel tense»). The total score may range from 0 to 60. A For that reason, it could not be considered as a dimension of
higher score indicates a higher level of state anxiety. The internal construct of parental stress. Consequently, and after deleting that
consistency for this sample was alpha= .92. isolated item as well as those items whose factor loadings were
low (<.30) for all factors (items 2, 4, 8, and 14), a new factor
Procedure analysis of generalized least-squares estimation with oblimin
rotation was conducted. In this solution, a two-factor structure
In a previous pilot stage, a preliminary Spanish version of the showed a good model fit (X2 (43)= 39.1, p= .64) and the solution
PSS2 was administered to a small sample of 5 couples in order to accounted for 33.5% of the variance, where Factor 1 (which we
examine the degree of understanding of the items. The two items called ‘Baby’s Rewards’) contributed to 23.4% of the variance and
that showed difficulty in terms of understanding (items 2 and 4) comprised 5 items (1, 5, 6, 16, and 17), and Factor 2 (which we
—even though they were not deleted at the very first moment— labeled as ‘Stressors’) contributed to 10.1% of the variance and
had inadequate psychometric properties in the original American was made up of 7 items (3, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 15). In this case,
version3 (Berry & Jones, 1995). Thus, due to these understanding as it can be seen in Table 2, the factor loadings of all items were
higher than .35 for corresponding factors.
Since a gender difference was expected for parental stress,
correlations between the two subscales (Baby’s Rewards and
Table 2 Stressors) were calculated separately, obtaining a somewhat
Factor weights of items from the factor analysis of generalized least-squares
higher correlation for women (.37, p<.01) than for men (.32,
estimation with oblimin rotation
p<.01).
Factors
Item 1 2 Internal consistency
01 .719 .096
The internal consistency of the instrument was examined by
03 .012 .622 means of Cronbach alpha. We calculated Cronbach alpha
05 .422 -.019 coefficients for the subscales as presented in the final version of
06 .659 .131 the Spanish PSS, and they showed an adequate internal
09 .199 .625 consistency for both subscales: Baby’s Rewards (α= .77), and
10 .124 .672 Stressors (α= .76).
11 -.097 .354
12 .166 .660 Criterion-Related Validity
13 .253 .542
To assess the criterion-related validity of the PSS
15 .188 .382
questionnaire, we examined the mean differences in Parental
16 .770 .251
Stress (total score), and Baby’s Reward and Stressor subscales for
17 .735 .164
gender. Previous literature suggests the hypothesis that stress
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measures can be expected to show gender differences (e.g., Brody Parental Stress Scale (PSS). The results show that the final 12-
& Hall, 1989; Hovanitz & Kozora, 1989; Remor, 2006). In our item Spanish version of the PSS has adequate factor and criterion-
sample, means and standard deviations for males and females are related validity, as well as adequate internal consistency reliability.
respectively as follows: 20.3 (SD= 4.7) and 22.3 (SD= 6.0) for the Furthermore, the latest data about new parents in the Basque
total score for Parental Stress; 7.1 (SD= 1.6) and 6.9 (SD= 1.9) for region in 2004, showed that 87% of women and 99.9% of men
Baby’s Rewards; and 13.2 (SD= 3.9) and 15.4 (SD= 4.9) for were paid workers, which are very similar percentages to those of
Stressors. As for gender, no differences were found, as it can be our sample. Thus, although we did not use a random design for the
seen in Table 3. In fact, although statistically significant data collection, our study may have produced quite similar data to
differences emerged for the Parental Stress Scale and for the that obtained in the target population. Moreover, assessment
Stressor subscale in the Mann-Whitney’s U analysis, the effect performance with the parents in this study confirms that the
size was small in both cases (η2= .03 and η2= .04, respectively). Spanish version of the questionnaire is easy to understand and
The second issue we examined was the association between quick to administer, supporting its feasibility in everyday clinical
Parental Stress and its subscales, and two related variables and research practice.
—anxiety (STAI) and depressive symptoms (BDI)—. Before When factor structures of our Spanish version and of the
calculating these correlations, we examined whether possible original American version were compared, some differences were
gender differences for anxiety and depressive symptoms appeared. highlighted. Specifically, authors included four subscales in the
In our sample, means and standard deviations for males and original American version: the two subscales we found in our
females were respectively as follows: 14.0 (SD= 8.1) and 16.4 study (i.e., ‘baby’s rewards’ and ‘parental stressors’), and two
(SD= 10.1) for anxiety; and 3.5 (SD= 3.5) and 5.7 (SD= 4.7) for additional short subscales (i.e., ‘lack of control’ and ‘parental
depressive symptoms. As for the gender differences test, only satisfaction’). Nevertheless, these two subscales proved to be
depressive symptoms were significantly higher for women than somewhat problematic because they showed a considerable
for men (Mann-Whitney’s U= 3,693.50; p<.001; η2= .08). Thus, empirical overlap with the two scales that also appeared in our
we computed zero-order correlations among target variables study and furthermore, they are not based upon a clear theoretical
without making any gender distinction (see Table 4). distinction. Therefore, a two-dimensional structure seems much
Previous studies (e.g., Wilkie & Ames, 1986; Windle & appropriate in the design of an assessment tool for parental stress.
Dumenci, 1997) have found that parental stress is related to The transition to parenthood becomes a complicated period
depressive symptoms and to anxiety. The results obtained in our where changes and redefinitions take place in men and women’s
study pointed in the same direction, where all correlations were lives in order to adjust to the new role of being a father or mother.
moderate or high (ranging from -.29 to .51). In this adaptation process, members of the couple may experiment
both negative and positive sides of parenthood, which Fawcett
Discussion (1988) called «costs and benefits» of motherhood/fatherhood. In
this respect, the two dimensions of PSS in our study —‘baby’s
The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric rewards’ and ‘parental stressors’— cover that combination of pros
properties (validity and reliability) of the Spanish version of the and cons that accompany the transition to parenthood. While the
baby’s reward dimension refers to the satisfaction that
mothers/fathers find in the parental role, parental stressors refers
to the stress levels parents find in this new role. This cost-benefit
Table 3 idea also appears in the Parent Stress Index (PSI, Abidin, 1995),
Mean differences on parental stress scale and dimensions for gender
where two subscales, called «parental stress» and «child’s
Mean range Mann- reinforcement of parent», also emerged.
Men Women Whitney’s U p η2 The relationship of parental stress with both anxiety and
depressive symptoms provided a basis for the criterion-related
Parental Stress 095.55 116.35 4,468.000 .013 .03 validity of the questionnaire. These results are in line with the
Baby’s Rewards 111.62 100.43 4,975.000 .114 .01 extensive scientific literature that pointed out that the emotional
Stressors 092.96 118.92 4,195.500 .002 .04 expression of general stress is characterized by anxiety and
depression (Bados, Solanas, & Andrés, 2005; Lazarus, 1993;
Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995), and that parental stress is
Table 4 associated with anxiety (Wilkie & Ames, 1986) and with
Correlations among parental stress, subscales, anxiety, and depressive
depressive symptoms (Windle & Dumenci, 1997).
symptoms
Regarding the possible relationship between gender and
Variables parental stress, our data shows some differences in comparison
1 2 3 4 5 with earlier findings with American samples (e.g., Belsky et al.,
1985; Berry & Jones, 1995; Coltrane, 2000; Cox, 1985; Yogev,
1. Parental Stress —
1986). In these previous studies, when the core dimension of
2. Baby’s Rewards -.56** — parental stress was examined, it seemed that women suffered
3. Stressors -.97** -.34** — higher levels of stress. This has been accounted for within a
4. Anxiety -.49** -.32** .47** — complex context, where women’s high levels of stress are a
5. Depressive symptoms -.51** -.29** .50** .69** — consequence of multiple individual, couple and social factors,
such as work overload, conflict of family-work roles, and the
** p<.001, two-tailed
involvement of the husband/partner in child-rearing (Lewis &
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Cooper, 1988). However, the much smaller differences found in and social applied settings, and especially as a first screening to
our study might be explained in terms of a general growing detect couples with high levels of stress or related difficulties in
involvement of men in child-rearing, and also a possible cultural the transition to parenthood.
distinctiveness may be underlying, as suggested by Hofstede’s
(1998) studies. According to Hofstede’s ranking of countries as Acknowledgements
regards the masculinity/femininity dimension, Spain is a less
masculine country than the United States, so the rigidity of gender This research was supported by a grant from the Research
roles should be somewhat lower in Spain — and especially in the Bureau of the University of the Basque Country to the first author
Basque region (Alonso-Arbiol, Shaver, & Yárnoz, 2002) — for the completion of her doctoral dissertation under the second
leading to an equal involvement of men and women in child- author’s supervision (1/UPV 00218.230-H-13680/2001). The
rearing. authors wish to thank Bide Etxeberria, Aloña Goiburu, Vanesa
The Spanish version of the PSS is the first instrument that Mangas, Idoia Otaegi, Laura Sepúlveda, Pilar Valor, Isabel Vila,
assesses the stress levels suffered by Spanish parents as a Sandra Villagrá, and Saioa Zarrazquin for invaluable help
consequence of the parental role. Nevertheless, it is important to collecting parents’ data.
warn of the study’s limitations. The main limitation is the small
size of the sample. Therefore, future research should focus on Notes
obtaining data from more specific samples, which should include
other groups not represented in the study (i.e., parents with more 1 Data from one man was not collected because he did not show
than one child, parents of older children, adoptive parents). On the up at the assessment interview.
other hand, in future studies, temporal stability should be explored 2 The previous Spanish version of PSS was made up of the 17
and confirmatory analyses carried out to ratify the model. items that were translated into Spanish.
To sum up, the Spanish version of the PSS seems to be an 3 These two items did not fit in any dimension of the English
accurate instrument for assessing parental stress in both clinical version of the PSS.

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