Perceived stress in prelocutive profoundly deaf people

In this paper, we present the adaptation of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) of Cohen (Cohen, Kamarck and Mermelstein, 1983) to the Mexican sign language to assess perceived stress in the prelocutive profoundly deaf population, Adaptation is performed using an adapted version for the general population and Landero Mexican González (2008). The adapted version of deaf people in Mexico has been called PSS-ASM and consists of two formats, a video in Mexican sign language and other writing where they appear only response options on a Likert scale. It was applied simultaneously to a sample of 38 prelocutive profoundly deaf people using sign language to communicate. The PSS-ASM fit is true to the original version about content is concerned. However, unlike the listener population, in this sample perceived stress is divided into two factors, one factor expression of stress and other stress management. The sample reported a media higher in the control factor, is also a significative but negative correlation between the factors, that is, greater control of stress, reduced expression of stressful stimuli are perceived in the persons of the sample. The perceived stress in deaf people of the sample is characterized by a greater perceived control of stressful stimuli but with a lower expression of the same, no differenceswere found with the results reported in samples of listeners in terms of increased perception stress. © 2011 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

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