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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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Depression and Poor Glycemic Control
TL;DR: Depression is associated with hyperglycemia in patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and additional studies are needed to establish the directional nature of this relationship and to determine the effects of depression treatment on glycemic control and the longterm course of diabetes.
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Subtyping major depression: a taxometric analysis.
Nick Haslam,Aaron T. Beck +1 more
TL;DR: Analysis of self-reported symptom and personality profiles of 531 consecutively admitted outpatients with a primary major depressive diagnosis sought to determine whether the clinical features proposed by the respective accounts systematically covary; which features are central to the respective latent structures; and whether these structures are discrete or continuous.
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Family functioning and children's adjustment: associations among parents' depressed mood, marital hostility, parent-child hostility, and children's adjustment.
Sabina Low,Clare M. Stocker +1 more
TL;DR: Relations between parents' depressed mood, marital conflict, parent-child hostility, and children's adjustment were examined in a community sample of 136 ten-year-olds and their parents and showed that both mothers' and fathers' marital hostility were linked to parent- child hostility, which in turn was linked to children's internalizing problems.
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The impact of perfectionistic self-presentation on the cognitive, affective, and physiological experience of a clinical interview.
TL;DR: The need to avoid disclosing imperfections was a unique predictor of (1) appraisals of the interviewer as threatening before the interview and as dissatisfied after the interview; (2) negative pre and post self-evaluated performance; and (3) greater change in heart rate when discussing mistakes.
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Stress, social support, and coping as predictors of depressive symptoms: Gender differences among Mexican Americans
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated stress, coping responses, and social support variables as predictors of psychological distress among Mexican American men and women, and found that women did not differ significantly in terms of the rate of depressive symptoms, while men did differ in the sources of stress and coping responses associated with depression.
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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.