Journal article
Reexamining the Beck Depression Inventory: The Long and Short of it
Abstract
The psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory and its short form were compared for a psychiatric sample of clinically depressed adults. Factor analyses indicated that the short form retained the essential integrity of cognitive components of the standard inventory but further attenuated already weak somatic components. As a result, the wisdom of shortening the scale is questioned and a call is made for improving the existing …
Authors
Vredenburg K; Krames L; Flett GL
Journal
Psychological Reports, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 767–778
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
June 1985
DOI
10.2466/pr0.1985.56.3.767
ISSN
0033-2941