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Dimensions of the Beck depression inventory-II in clinically depressed outpatients

✍ Scribed by Robert A. Steer; Roberta Ball; William F. Ranieri; Aaron T. Beck

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
91 KB
Volume
55
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9762

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✦ Synopsis

To ascertain the dimensions of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II;Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) in clinically depressed outpatients, exploratory factor analyses were performed with the BDI-II responses of 210 adult (Υ†18 years) outpatients who were diagnosed with DSM-IV depressive disorders. Two factors representing Somatic-Affective and Cognitive dimensions were found whose compositions were comparable to those previously reported by Beck, Steer, and Brown (1996) for psychiatric outpatients in general. A subsequent confirmatory factor analysis supported a model in which the BDI-II reflected one underlying second-order dimension of self-reported depression composed of two first-order factors representing cognitive and noncognitive symptoms. The clinical utility of using subscales based on these two latter first-order symptom dimensions was discussed.

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