title: Psychometric properties of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire for adolescents.
abstract: Items of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ) were rephrased and simplified to make them appropriate for younger subjects. This adolescent form of the DEQ (DEQ-A) was administered to high school students; a factor analysis revealed three factors that were highly congruent in female and male students and with the three factors of the original DEQ. Internal consistency as well as short- and long-term reliability for each of the 3 DEQ-A factors were at acceptable levels. Each factor correlated highly with its counterpart factor in the original DEQ, especially the Dependency and Self-Criticism factors. Correlations of the DEQ-A factors with other measures of depression essentially replicate relationships found between these measures of depression and the original DEQ for adults. The reliability, internal consistency, and validity of the DEQ-A indicate that it could be useful in studying depressive experiences in younger adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06519.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Blatt
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Schaffer
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bers
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Quinlan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012649:Self Concept