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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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An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: psychometric properties.
TL;DR: Un nouvel inventaire auto-administre destine a mesurer l'anxiete pathologique, le «Beck Anxiety Cheklist» (BAI) est decrit, evalue et compare au «Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale» (test avec lequel des correlations moderees sont trouvees).
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Distinguishing optimism from neuroticism (and trait anxiety, self-mastery, and self-esteem): a reevaluation of the Life Orientation Test
TL;DR: Examination of the scale on somewhat different grounds, however, does suggest that future applications can benefit from its revision, and a minor modification to the Life Orientation Test is described, along with data bearing on the revised scale's psychometric properties.
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Comparison of Beck Depression Inventories -IA and -II in psychiatric outpatients.
TL;DR: The amended (revised) Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-IA) and theBeck Depression Inventory-II (BDi-II) were self-administered to 140 psychiatric outpatients with various psychiatric disorders.
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The Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Self-Compassion
TL;DR: The Self-Compassion Scale as discussed by the authors is a self-compassion measure that measures the amount of self-love one has towards oneself in instances of pain or failure rather than being harshly self-critical.
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Psychometric properties of the 42-item and 21-item versions of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales in clinical groups and a community sample.
TL;DR: Lovibond et al. as discussed by the authors examined the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS; S. H. Lovibond & P. F. Lempitsky, 1995) and the 21-item short form of these measures, and found that the DASS distinguishes well between features of depression, physical arousal, and psychological tension and agitation.
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Adjustment in diabetic adolescent girls: II. Adjustment, self-esteem, and depression in diabetic adolescent girls
TL;DR: Results indicate that levels of self‐esteem and depression highly correlate with the level of adjustment as assessed on the Diabetic Adjustment Scale (DAS), which point to the usefulness of the DAS as a potential screening device for low self‐ esteem and depression in adolescent girls who have diabetes.
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Depression in women after perinatal death
Michael Clarke,AntonyJ. Williams +1 more
TL;DR: The difference in prevalence of depression between women who had had live births and women whose babies were stillborn or died in the first 7 days of life was influenced by age.
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Will the real social desirability please stand up? Hopelessness, depression, social desirability, and the prediction of suicidal behavior.
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Alcoholism and Depression; The Factor Structure of Alcoholics' Responses to Depression Inventories
Stephen Gibson,Joseph Becker +1 more
TL;DR: A factor analysis of the responses of items in self-reported depression revealed major similarities between the affect described by alcoholics and that of primarily depressed patients as mentioned in this paper, indicating that depression is related to alcoholics.
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A Factorial Analysis of BDI Scores.
TL;DR: Undertook a factorial analysis of the BDI on a sample of 214 male cardiac outpatients, finding that the factor structure yielded three psychologically distinct dimensions interpreted as negative self-attitudes, physiological symptoms and sadness.