title: Peer Nomination Inventory of Depression: characteristics in a Spanish sample.
abstract: The Peer Nomination Inventory of Depression (PNID) was answered by 1,121 children from Barcelona in the fourth year of grammar school and by their teachers (n = 36) to analyze this questionnaire in a Spanish sample. The results indicated (1) high internal consistency; (2) discriminative power between depressed and nondepressed; (3) low concurrent validity; (4) convergent and discriminant validity; (5) a two-factor structure; and (6) that two discriminant functions could differentiate between depressed, dysthymic, and nondepressed subjects. The teacher's responses showed (1) moderate internal consistency; (2) discriminative power between depressed and nondepressed groups; (3) moderate concurrent validity; (4) and that two discriminant functions could differentiate between the diagnostic groups. The importance of the information given by the teacher to help detect severe depressive problems was pointed out.
authors: Departamento de Psicología de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain.
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Ezpeleta
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Polaino
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Doménech
authors: J M
authors: JM
authors: Doménech
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics; D013030:Spain