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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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Prospective evaluation of anxiety sensitivity in the pathogenesis of panic: replication and extension.

TL;DR: Consistent with the authors' initial study, AS predicted the development of spontaneous panic attacks after controlling for a history of panic attacks and trait anxiety, and AS was found to possess symptom specificity with respect to anxiety versus depression symptoms.
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Eye movement assessment of selective attentional capture by emotional pictures.

TL;DR: It is concluded that overt visual attention is captured by both unpleasant and pleasant emotional content in emotional visual scenes.
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Coping through emotional approach: problems of conceptualization and confounding.

TL;DR: Two studies supported hypotheses that published scales tapping coping through processing and expressing emotion are confounded with psychopathology, and that EAC, when tapped by items uncontaminated by distress, is beneficial under specific conditions.
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Responses to Positive Affect: A Self-Report Measure of Rumination and Dampening.

TL;DR: It is suggested that future research on mood disorders would benefit from measuring responses to both negative and positive moods, and a self-report measure of ruminative and dampening Responses to Positive Affect is developed, called the RPA Questionnaire.
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Neural correlates of rumination in depression.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that ruminative self-focus is associated with enhanced recruitment of limbic and medial and dorsolateral prefrontal regions in 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

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.