Carried out four experiments in which male and female undergraduates (N = 384) completed the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) under conditions ranging from absolute anonymity to a face-to-face interview. BDI interitem reliability was comparable across the two sexes and across different methods of tes
Internal consistencies of the original and revised beck depression inventory
โ Scribed by Aaron T. Beck; Robert A. Steer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 197 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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โฆ Synopsis
Studied internal consistencies of the 1961 and 1978 versions of the Beck Depression Inventory in two different samples of psychiatric patients. The alpha coefficient for the 598 inpatients and outpatients who were administered the 1961 version was .88, and the alpha coefficient for the 248 outpatients who were self-administered the 1978 version was .86. The patterns of corrected item-total correlations were also similar, and it was concluded that the internal consistencies of both versions were comparable.
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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 (ี18 years) outpatients who were diagnosed with DSM-IV depressive disorders. Two