This study examined the validity of the Assessment of Depression Inventory (ADI), a 39-item measure of depression with three embedded validity scales, using inpatient participants. The ADI Depression (Dep) and Feigning (Fg) scales were compared to the corresponding scales of a widely used multiscale
The Assessment of Depression Inventory (ADI): an appraisal of validity in an outpatient sample
β Scribed by Neil L. Mogge; Joel S. Steinberg; William Fremouw; Julia Messer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 107 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1091-4269
- DOI
- 10.1002/da.20247
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