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Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory: Twenty-five years of evaluation
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A meta-analysis of the BDI's internal consistency estimates yielded a mean coefficient alpha of 0.86 for psychiatric patients and 0.81 for non-psychiatric subjects as mentioned in this paper.About:
This article is published in Clinical Psychology Review.The article was published on 1988-01-01. It has received 11149 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Beck Depression Inventory.read more
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Acute Pain in Herpes Zoster and Its Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life
TL;DR: It is found that greater pain burden, as assessed by the product of pain intensity and duration, was associated with poorer physical functioning, increased emotional distress, and decreased role and social functioning.
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The expression of anger and its consequences.
TL;DR: Cluster analysis, using TRYSYS key cluster variable analyses, on 59 anger expression items replicated Spielberger's Anger-In and Anger-Control dimensions and revealed seven additional forms of anger expression: Noisy Arguing, Verbal Assault, Physical Assault-People, Physical assault-Objects, Reciprocal Communication, Time Out, and Direct Expression.
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From loss to loneliness: The relationship between bereavement and depressive symptoms.
Eiko I. Fried,Claudi L H Bockting,Retha Arjadi,Denny Borsboom,Maximilian Amshoff,Angélique O. J. Cramer,Sacha Epskamp,Francis Tuerlinckx,Deborah Carr,Margaret Stroebe +9 more
TL;DR: The findings support a growing body of literature showing that specific adverse life events differentially affect depressive symptomatology, and suggest that future studies should examine interventions that directly target such symptoms.
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The Differential Effects of Abuse Characteristics and Attachment in the Prediction of Long-Term Effects of Sexual Abuse
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that sexual abuse severity and adult attachment (reflective of the more pervasive experience of growing up in a family) would each have significant but distinct effects on the long-term functioning of incest survivors.
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Epistemic curiosity, feeling-of-knowing, and exploratory behaviour
TL;DR: The authors investigated how knowledge gaps, measured by feeling-of-knowing, and individual differences in epistemic curiosity contribute to the arousal of state curiosity and exploratory behavior for 265 university students.
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An inventory for measuring depression
TL;DR: The difficulties inherent in obtaining consistent and adequate diagnoses for the purposes of research and therapy have been pointed out and a wide variety of psychiatric rating scales have been developed.
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A rating scale for depression
TL;DR: The present scale has been devised for use only on patients already diagnosed as suffering from affective disorder of depressive type, used for quantifying the results of an interview, and its value depends entirely on the skill of the interviewer in eliciting the necessary information.
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Cognitive Therapy of Depression
Steven D. Hollon,Aaron T. Beck +1 more
TL;DR: Hollon and Shaw as discussed by the authors discuss the role of emotions in Cognitive Therapy and discuss the integration of homework into Cognitive Therapy, and discuss problems related to Termination and Relapse.
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A self-rating depression scale.
TL;DR: The general depression scales used were felt to be insufficient for the purpose of this research project and the more specific scales were also inadequate.
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Depression: Causes and Treatment
Aaron T. Beck,Brad A. Alford +1 more
TL;DR: The definition of Depression is explained and a treatment plan for treatment and analysis of the causes and treatments are outlined.