Data for assessing the dependency between stress and anxiety in nonclinical women in Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
A data frame containing 166 observations on the following 2 variables.
stressdefined as rate.
anxietydefined as rate.
Both variables are rates obtained as linear transformations from the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales which range from 0 to 42 (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995). Additional details can be found in Example 2 from Smithson and Verkuilen (2006).
Smithson, M., and Verkuilen, J. (2006). A Better Lemon Squeezer? Maximum-Likelihood Regression with Beta-Distributed Dependent Variables. Psychological Methods, 11(7), 54–71.
Lovibond, P. F., & Lovibond, S. H. (1995). The structure of negative emotional states: Comparison of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) with the Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories. Behaviour research and therapy, 33(3), 335-343.