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CHILDREN'S DEPRESSION SCALE: VALIDATION WITH CHILD PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENTS
Author(s) -
Kazdin Alan E.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1987.tb00650.x
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , psychology , internal consistency , psychiatry , clinical psychology , psychometrics , childhood depression , cognition , economics , macroeconomics
The present investigation examined the psychometric characteristics and correlates of the Children's Depression Scale (CDS) with psychiatric impatient children ( n = 185; ages 7–12) and their parents ( n = 154). The results revealed: high internal consistency of the CDS, significant correlations of CDS scores with other measures of depression and related constructs (hopelessness, self‐esteem) and significant difference in CDS depression and positive experience scores for children independently diagnosed as meeting Research Diagnostic Criteria for depression versus cither disorders. Parent CDS scores permitted finer diagnostic discriminations and revealed age and gender differences in childhood depression not evident from the children's scores.