title: Confirmatory factor analyses of the Anxiety and Depression content scales of the MMPI-2.
abstract: A sample of 408 patients with substance use disorders was equally divided into derivation and cross-validation samples. All patients had taken the MMPI-2. Exploratory factor analyses of MMPI-2 item data in the derivation sample permitted construction of latent variable measurement models for the Anxiety (ANX) and Depression (DEP) content scales. The 2-factor models for ANX consisted of Trait Anxiety and Worry, and the 3-factor model for DEP contained factors of Trait Depression, Hopelessness, and Self-Depreciation. Confirmatory factor analyses in cross-validation demonstrated a good fit for both models and for their combination in a 5-factor measurement model. Latent variable correlations in the 5-factor model helped explain the high correlation and low discriminant validity of ANX and DEP.
authors.affiliation: Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results