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Use of the Beck Anxiety and Depression Inventories for Primary Care with Medical Outpatients.
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Beck, Aaron T.; Steer, Robert A.; Ball, Roberta; Ciervo, Carman A.; Kabat, Mark – Assessment, 1997
The effectiveness of the Beck Anxiety and Beck Depression Inventories for Primary Care for discriminating 56 primary care patients with and without diagnosed anxiety and mood disorders. Use of these instruments to screen primary care patients before conducting extensive diagnostic evaluations with them is discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Evaluation Methods, Moods
Examining Scale Discriminability in the BDI and CES-D as a Function of Depressive Severity.
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Santor, Darcy A.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1995
Scale discriminability was examined in the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) with 151 college students and 60 depressed outpatients. The superior scale discriminability of the CES-D offers one explanation for its poorer specificity in college samples. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Depression (Psychology), Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Self-Report Differentiation of Anxiety and Depression in an Anxiety Disorders Sample.
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Cox, Brian J.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1993
To study the distinction between self-reports of anxiety and depression, a factor analysis was conducted using responses of 298 anxiety disorder patients on the Beck Depression Inventory and the State Anxiety subscale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Results suggest that the two conditions can be reliably differentiated in self-reports. (SLD)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Comparative Testing, Depression (Psychology), Diagnostic Tests
Nonparametric Item Analyses of the Beck Depression Inventory: Evaluating Gender Item Bias and Response Option Weights.
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Santor, Darcy A.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1994
Nonparametric item response models were used to investigate psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory in 648 depressed outpatients and 1,182 nonpatient college students. Estimated values for some options did not align with a priori weights in the college sample, and some option characteristic curves were problematic in both samples.…
Descriptors: College Students, Depression (Psychology), Estimation (Mathematics), Higher Education