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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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Depression and general psychopathology in university students
TL;DR: Sur une population d'etudiants, les auteurs ont compare les resultats de sept questionnaires de psychopathologie: ils ont trouve des intercorrelations significatives and un facteur unitaire de detresse generale.
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Quantitative rating of depressive states.
TL;DR: A step‐by‐step analysis of Beck's and Hamilton's rating scales showed that both, scales failed to differentiate adequately between moderate and severe depression measured by a global clinical assessment.
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Depression in Ambulatory Medical Patients: Prevalence by Self-report Questionnaire and Recognition by Nonpsychiatric Physicians
TL;DR: The BDI was shown to be a sensitive screening test; its use is advocated to improve recognition of depression by primary physicians.
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Reliabilities and concurrent validities of popular self-report measures of depression, anxiety, and social desirability
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Comparative studies of psychological function in patients with advanced cancer--I. Self-reported depressive symptoms.
Marjorie Plumb,Jimmie C. Holland +1 more
TL;DR: Vegetative depressive symptoms in cancer patients may reflect advanced disease, but nonsomatic symptoms should be reason for psychiatric consultation.