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Download full textByrne, Barbara M.; Baron, Pierre – 1990
Based on three independent samples of high school adolescents in central Canada, aged 12 to 18 years, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used to identify, test, and cross-validate first-order and second-order factorial structures underlying the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Specifically, the study…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
Watkins, Arleen J.; Kligman, Evan – 1989
The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a self-reported inventory tapping current feelings only. A short form was published in 1972 consisting of 13 items from the original BDI, called the BDI-SF. In 1978 the original version was modified to eliminate double negative statements and alternative ways of asking the same question and then referred to…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Older Adults, Psychometrics, Test Validity
PDF pending restorationFunabiki, Dean; And Others – 1981
Research directed toward examining clinical depression among college students requires valid criterion measures for identifying depressed individuals. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the most widely-used self-report screening instrument for identifying depressed college students, has been criticized for its heavy emphasis on cognitive items…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedDozois, David J. A.; Ahnberg, Jamie L.; Dobson, Keith S. – Psychological Assessment, 1998
Provides psychometric information on the second edition of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) (A. Beck, R. Steer, and G. Brown, 1996) for internal consistency, factorial validity, and gender differences. Results indicate that the BDI-II is a stronger instrument than its predecessor in terms of factor structure. (SLD)
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Psychometrics
Byrne, Barbara M.; And Others – 1994
The intent of the present study was to test for the validity and equivalency of a second-order factorial structure of the Beck Depression Inventory for and across three independent samples (n1=661; n2=239; n3=196) of nonclinical Swedish adolescents; the model under study derived from a cross-validated study of Canadian high school adolescents…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Correlation, Depression (Psychology), Foreign Countries
Byrne, Barbara M.; And Others – 1992
A study of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was conducted to: (1) test for the factorial validity of the French version of the BDI (BDI-FR) separately for 551 non-clinical Francophone adolescent males and 601 non-clinical Francophone adolescent females; (2) cross-validate findings across a second independent sample for each sex; and (3) test…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Diagnostic Tests, Factor Structure
Byrne, Barbara M.; Baron, Pierre – 1991
The aims of the present study were threefold: (1) to test for the equivalency of an hierarchical three-factor structure of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) across English and French versions for non-clinical adolescents; (2) given evidence of poor model fit, to validate the factorial structure of the BDI French version across three independent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Testing, English, Factor Structure
