The Reliability of the Turkish Version of the Stressors in Students Scale

Nursing students experience stress during their education and in clinical practice. The aim of this methodological study was to adapt the Stressors in Students Scale (SIS) into Turkish and to evaluate its psychometric properties for a Turkish nursing student population. The psychometric properties of the scale were examined by collecting data from 309 nursing students. An exploratory factor analysis identified that the eigenvalues for the two factors of the scale were 25.91 and 23.40; these two factors explained 49.32 % of the variance. Cronbach's Alpha for the total scale was 0.79, and the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy coefficient was 0.76. This instrument can be used to measure stressors in nursing students. Further studies are needed to test the psychometric properties of this scale in different cultures.