title: The General Health Questionnaire: reliability and validity for Australian youth.
abstract: General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) results are given for a large (N = 1013) sample of South Australian young people (average age 19.6 years), to compare the usefulness of the 12-, 28-, and 30-item forms of the GHQ. Internal reliabilities are generally adequate and the Likert scoring method produces significant correlations with psychological measures such as self-esteem. The case-prevalence rate using the binary scoring method was comparable with other studies, but misclassification rates were unacceptably high when DSM-III Axis I diagnosis was used as the criterion for the presence of any psychiatric disorder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, South Australia.
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Winefield
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Goldney
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Winefield
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tiggemann
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000379:methods*; D011594:Psychometrics; D014478:Unemployment