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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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War zone stress, personal resources, and PTSD in Persian Gulf War returnees.
TL;DR: Personality hardiness commitment, avoidance coping, and perceived family cohesion emerged as consistent predictors of PTSD diagnosis, suggesting personal characteristics and environmental factors may alter vulnerability to negative war stress outcomes.
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Reciprocal Associations between Boys’ Externalizing Problems and Mothers’ Depressive Symptoms
TL;DR: Using a sample of males from predominantly low-income families, reciprocal relations between boys’ overt disruptive behavior and maternal depressive symptoms are explored and consistent maternal effects were found and child effects were evident during the transition to adolescence.
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The Beck Anxiety Inventory: a psychometric analysis
Paul L. Hewitt,G. Ron Norton +1 more
TL;DR: The results from factor analyses demonstrated that the BAI has two factors, corresponding to cognitive and somatic symptoms as discussed by the authors, and that BAI items were distinguishable from BDI items, suggesting that the symptoms measured in the two scales are not entirely overlapping.
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Fatigue and sleep disturbance in patients with cancer, patients with clinical depression, and community-dwelling adults.
Karen O. Anderson,Carl J. Getto,Tito R. Mendoza,Stephen N Palmer,Xin Shelley Wang,Cielito C. Reyes-Gibby,Charles S. Cleeland +6 more
TL;DR: This study compared the severity of fatigue in patients with cancer to the fatigue reported by depressed psychiatric patients and community-dwelling adults, and found that the psychiatric patients reported significantly higher levels of fatigue and fatigue-related interference than the cancer patients, who reported more severe fatigue and interference.
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Factors associated with the positive impact of caring for elderly and dependent relatives.
TL;DR: It is suggested that the positive aspects of caregiving are mainly related to specific characteristics of the caregivers, and caregiving satisfaction was not related to aspects of the stressors.
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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.