The Beck Depression Inventory Second Edition (BDI-II): psychometric properties in Icelandic student and patient populations.

To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is one of the most widely used self-report measures of depression in both research and clinical practice. The Beck Depression Inventory Second Edition (B...

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Published in:Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
Main Authors: Arnarson, ÞÖ, Olason, DÞ, Smari, J, Sigurdsson, JF
Other Authors: Faculty of Social Science, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Informa Healthcare 2000
Subjects:
Adult
Anxiety Disorders
Depression
Depressive Disorder
Factor Analysis
Statistical
Female
Humans
Iceland
Interview
Psychological
Male
Mental Disorders
Patients
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Psychometrics
ROC Curve
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Students
Young Adult
Beck
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2336/74813
https://doi.org/10.1080/08039480801962681
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Summary:To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is one of the most widely used self-report measures of depression in both research and clinical practice. The Beck Depression Inventory Second Edition (BDI-II) is the most recent version of the BDI. The objective of the present study was to assess the psychometric foundations of the Icelandic translation of the BDI-II, adding to its international knowledge base. Participants were in total 1454, 1206 students and 248 outpatient-clinic patients. All students completed the BDI-II and a subgroup (n=142) completed additional measures of anxiety and depression. The Mini-International Psychiatric Interview (MINI) and the BDI-II were administrated to the patients. Convergent and divergent validity of the BDI-II were supported. It discriminated satisfactorily between patients diagnosed and those not diagnosed with major depression. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed small differences between various factor models of the BDI-II, derived from previous studies. However, a model of three first-order factors (cognitive-affective-somatic) and one second-order factor (general depression) offered an acceptable description of the item covariance structure for the BDI-II in both samples. It is concluded that the psychometric properties of the Icelandic version of the BDI-II are supported in patient and student populations.

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