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Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory-II: a comprehensive review

Yuan-Pang Wang, +1 more
- 01 Oct 2013 - 
- Vol. 35, Iss: 4, pp 416-431
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The BDI-II is a relevant psychometric instrument, showing high reliability, capacity to discriminate between depressed and non-depressed subjects, and improved concurrent, content, and structural validity.
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This article is published in Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria.The article was published on 2013-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 906 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Beck Depression Inventory & Test validity.

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On the factor structure of the Beck Depression Inventory-II: G is the key.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the BDI-II total scale score reflects a single construct and that reporting and interpreting subscale scores may result in misleading conclusions.
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Psychometric Properties of a Spanish Version of the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) in General Population

TL;DR: This is the first study that provides normative, reliability, factor validity and discriminant validity data of the Beck Anxiety Inventory in the Spanish general population and indicates that the correlations between the instruments may be better accounted for by relationships between anxiety, depression, and anger.
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Beck Depression Inventory II: evaluation of the psychometric properties and cut-off points in a Turkish adult population†

TL;DR: The findings revealed that BDI II has sound psychometric properties and comparable cut‐offs scores for the Turkish population, and the cut‐off scores to classify minimal, mild, moderate, and severe depression were quite akin to the cut-off points previously suggested for the American population.
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Comparing the BDI-II and the PHQ-9 with Outpatient Substance Abusers.

TL;DR: Both self-report measures of depression and substance abusers were correlated with severity levels of alcohol and drug use and advantages and disadvantages of using both measures with substance abusers are discussed.
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