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

• 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

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.