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Reliability and factorial structure of the chinese version of the Beck Depression Inventory
Author(s) -
Shek Daniel T. L.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(199001)46:1<35::aid-jclp2270460106>3.0.co;2-w
Subject(s) - psychology , beck depression inventory , internal consistency , factorial , psychometrics , construct validity , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , test validity , scale (ratio) , factorial analysis , item analysis , sample (material) , statistics , psychiatry , mathematics , anxiety , cartography , mathematical analysis , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , economics , macroeconomics , chemistry , chromatography , geography
The Chinese version of the Beck Depression Inventory (C‐BDI) was administered to 2,150 Chinese secondary school students. The BDI was found to have high internal consistency as a scale and high item‐total correlations for most of the items. Factor analysis with a two‐factor solution showed that two factors were abstracted from the scale, namely, general depression and somatic disturbances. By randomly splitting the total sample into two subsamples, these two factors could be reproduced reliably, and high coefficients of congruence were found. These findings generally suggest that the Chinese version of the BDI possesses acceptable psychometric properties, and the factor analytic data tend to support Beck's multi‐dimensional view of depression as a construct.