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Cross-Cultural Comparisons and the Presumption of Equivalent Measurement and Theoretical Structure: A Look beneath the Surface.
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Byrne, Barbara M.; Campbell, T. Leanne – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1999
Demonstrates the extent to which item-score data can vary across cultures despite measurements from an instrument in which factorial structure is specified in each group. Scores from the Beck Depression Inventory for 658 Canadian, 1,096 Swedish, and 691 Bulgarian high school students illustrate the differences. Discusses implications for…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Depression (Psychology), Factor Structure
The Beck Depression Inventory: Testing for Invariant Measurement and Structure across Gender for Nonclinical Adolescents.
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Byrne, Barbara M.; And Others – 1991
Extending the earlier work of B. M. Byrne and P. Baron (1990), the factorial invariance of the 21-item Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was tested using 351 non-clinical adolescent males and 334 non-clinical adolescent females. All subjects were in grades 9 through 12 and attended the same secondary school in a large metropolitan area in central…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Measures, Analysis of Covariance, Comparative Testing