Dimensions of the Beck Depression Inventory-II in clinically depressed outpatients.
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.
Steer
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford 08084-1350, USA.
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Ranieri
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Beck
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D003071:Cognition; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000592:standards; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity