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A comparison of four scales for anxiety, depression, and neuroticism
Author(s) -
Meites Karen,
Lovallo William,
Pishkin Vladimir
Publication year - 1980
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/jclp.6120360207
Subject(s) - psychology , neuroticism , beck depression inventory , eysenck personality questionnaire , anxiety , clinical psychology , depression (economics) , personality assessment inventory , beck anxiety inventory , rating scale , personality , extraversion and introversion , developmental psychology , psychiatry , big five personality traits , social psychology , macroeconomics , economics
Examined the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Zung Self‐Rating Depression Scale (SDS), and the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMAS) for specificity and validity as measures of anxiety and depression. It was hypothesized that if the BDI and SDS were specific to symptoms of depression, they would show high correlations with each other, low correlations with the TMAS, and intermediate correlations with the Neuroticism scale of the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI‐N). The four instruments were administered to 170 undergraduate students, and correlations and qualitative content analyses showed that the BDI, SDS and TMAS were intercorrelated significantly with the EPI‐N scale and that item content overlapped heavily among the tests. The results suggest all four tests tap an emotionality factor of stability‐instability.