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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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Role of stress, arousal, and coping skills in primary insomnia.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the appraisal of stressors and the perceived lack of control over stressful events, rather than the number of stressful events per se, enhance the vulnerability to insomnia.
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Development and validation of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS).

TL;DR: A new self-report instrument, the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS), which was designed to assess specific symptom dimensions of major depression and related anxiety disorders, shows strong short-term stability and display excellent convergent validity and good discriminant validity in relation to other self- report and interview-based measures of depression and anxiety.
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Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)

TL;DR: The BDI is a 21 item self-report rating inventory measuring characteristic attitudes and symptoms of depression (Beck et al., 1961) and has been developed in different forms including several computerized forms, a card form (May, Urquhart, Tarran, 1969, cited in Groth-Marnat, 1990); the 13-item short form and the more recent BDI-11.
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The State--Trait Anxiety Inventory, Trait version: structure and content re-examined

TL;DR: Overall, the results offered good support for the notion that the trait scale of the STAI assesses depression, as well as anxiety.
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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.