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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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Women's history of sexual abuse, their sexuality, and sexual self-schemas.
TL;DR: CSA survivors were found to view themselves as less romantic and passionate than women who were not abused, suggesting that the impact of CSA on sexual self-schemas may be independent from the impact that the abuse may have in other areas of the survivor's life.
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Development and psychometric validation of an eating disorder-specific health-related quality of life instrument
Scott G. Engel,David A. Wittrock,Ross D. Crosby,Stephen A. Wonderlich,James E. Mitchell,Ronette L. Kolotkin,Ronette L. Kolotkin +6 more
TL;DR: The development and validation of the Eating Disorders Quality of Life (EDQOL) instrument is reported, a disease-specific HRQOL self-report questionnaire designed for disordered eating patients that demonstrates excellent psychometric properties.
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C-reactive protein is associated with psychological risk factors of cardiovascular disease in apparently healthy adults.
TL;DR: Greater anger and severity of depressive symptoms, separately and in combination with hostility, were significantly associated with elevations in CRP in apparently healthy men and women.
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An exploration of evolved mental mechanisms for dominant and subordinate behaviour in relation to auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia and critical thoughts in depression.
Paul Gilbert,Max Birchwood,Jean Gilbert,Peter Trower,J. Hay,B. Murray,Alan Meaden,K. Olsen,Jeremy N. V. Miles +8 more
TL;DR: Evidence is presented that schizophrenic, malevolent voice hearers and self-critical depressed people experience their hostile, internally generated voices/thoughts as powerful, dominating and controlling (i.e. have typical characteristics of a hostile dominant) and these are associated with depression in both depression and schizophrenia.
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Negative affect, self-report of depressive symptoms, and clinical depression: relation to the experience of chronic pain.
TL;DR: The GSI, Beck Depression Inventory, and Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale were significantly correlated with each measure of the experience of pain, although clinical depression was only significantly related to self-reported disability and negative thoughts about pain.
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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.