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Peer reviewedSteer, Robert A.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1986
The Beck Depression Inventory was administered to 35 outpatients diagnosed as primary generalized anxiety disorders and 101 outpatients diagnosed as primary major-depression and dysthymic disorders. A backward stepwise-discriminant analysis revealed that Sadness and Loss of Libido were the only two symptoms that meaningfullly distinguished between…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology), Discriminant Analysis
Peer reviewedHewitt, Paul L.; Norton, G. Ron; Flett, Gordon L.; Callander, Lois; Cowan, Tim – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1998
Compares assessment results of inpatients with alcoholism who have made a serious suicide attempt and a matched sample of inpatients with alcoholism who have no history of suicide attempts. Discriminant function analysis reveals that depression, social hopelessness, and socially prescribed perfectionism are unique discriminators of suicide groups.…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Attitudes, Depression (Psychology), Discriminant Analysis
