TY - JOUR
AU1 - Steer, Robert A.
AU2 - Ball, Roberta
AU3 - Ranieri, William F.
AU4 - Beck, Aaron T.
AB - 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 (≥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. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 55: 117–128, 1999.
TI - Dimensions of the Beck depression inventory‐II in clinically depressed outpatients
JF - Journal of Clinical Psychology
DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4679(199901)55:1<117::AID-JCLP12>3.0.CO;2-A
DA - 1999-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/dimensions-of-the-beck-depression-inventory-ii-in-clinically-depressed-xly6TOxrTU
SP - 117
EP - 128
VL - 55
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -