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Article: Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Beck Depression Inventory-II using the Rasch model.(Report)
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- Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI; Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996; Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock, & Erbaugh, 1961) is a widely researched self-report measure of depression. It was designed to measure the presence and severity of depression in psychiatrically diagnosed patients and in nonclinical populations of both adolescents and adults. A variety of translated versions of the BDI-II have been studied worldwide, and many empirical studies have investigated psychometric characteristics of the BDI-II, including internal consistency, factorial validity, and dimensionality (e.g., Dozois, Dobson, & Ahnberg, 1998; Osman et al., 1997; Penley, Wiebe, & Nwosu, 2003; Steer, Ball, ...