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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.
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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.

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The Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire: Confirmatory factor analysis and identification of patient subgroups

TL;DR: Results provide further support for the 20‐item, two‐factor Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire and indicate that it is both theoretically and practically useful.
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The role of negative affectivity in the association between attributions and marital satisfaction.

TL;DR: Findings clarify the link between attributions and marital satisfaction and raise the possibility that negative affectivity contributes to the attributions that spouses make for negative events in marriage.
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Psychosocial variables, quality of life, and religious beliefs in ESRD patients treated with hemodialysis

TL;DR: Religious beliefs are related to perception of depression, illness effects, social support, and QOL independently of medical aspects of illness.
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Use of harsh physical discipline and developmental outcomes in adolescence

TL;DR: It is suggested that a history of harsh discipline is associated not only with social and emotional functioning, but also with the developmental task of autonomy and relatedness in family interactions.
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The roles of religion and spirituality among African American survivors of domestic violence

TL;DR: Results did not support hypotheses regarding social support and religious coping as mediators of the associations between mental health variables, religious involvement, and spirituality and found women who evinced higher levels of spirituality and greater religious involvement reported fewer depression symptoms.
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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

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

TL;DR: The definition of Depression is explained and a treatment plan for treatment and analysis of the causes and treatments are outlined.