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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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Psychodiagnostic test usage: a survey of the society for personality assessment.
TL;DR: Psychodiagnostic test usage and practices of the Society for Personality Assessment are investigated, finding that personality assessment was mainly utilized for diagnostic purposes and as an indicator for type of therapy.
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The relationship between depression and anxiety.
TL;DR: In this article, six self-rating mood scales were administered to a group of psychiatric inpatients and the intercorrelation between the scores obtained on the individual scales were, in the main, all high.
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Depression, demographic dimensions, and drug abuse
Walter Dorus,Edward C. Senay +1 more
TL;DR: After eight months, depression scores were significantly lower in all drug abuse groups, and reducations were not related to type or length of treatment.
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A Controlled Study of the Antidepressant Effects of Lithium Carbonate
TL;DR: In a double-blind crossover study comparing lithium carbonate with desimipramine in the treatment of selected depressed patients, there was considerable improvement in both groups of patients, with no statistically significant difference between the effectiveness of the two drugs.