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- Title
Dimensions of the Beck Depression Inventory-II in clinically depressed outpatients.
- Authors
Steer, R A; Ball, R; Ranieri, W F; Beck, A T
- Abstract
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 (> or =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.
- Publication
Journal of clinical psychology, 1999, Vol 55, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
0021-9762
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199901)55:1<117::aid-jclp12>3.0.co;2-a