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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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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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The psychophysiology of affective verbal and visual information processing in dysphoria

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of visually and verbally processing depressive, neutral, and pleasant scenes in 10 dysphoric and 10 non-dysphoric college students was assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).
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A multi-institutional study of depression in family practice.

TL;DR: This study provides the first extensive normative data for family practice on these measures, thus providing family physicians with a comparison group appropriate for a family practice rather than a psychiatric population.
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Correlations between Beck Depression Scores and Physical Complaints

TL;DR: Results bear out the clinically reported and theoretically hypothesized relationship between these two variables between physical complaint and depression.
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Taking items out of context: dimensional shifts with the short form of the Beck Depression Inventory.

TL;DR: Two samples of students completed theshort form of the Beck Depression Inventory under different conditions, indicating that the short form may be measuring different dimensions than the long form.