Interconvertability of five self-report measures of depression

This article describes the construction of a new self-report scale based directly on the DSM-III criteria for major depressive disorder. It provides data on the interconvertability of scores on this scale with scores obtained on the Beck Depression Inventory, the Zung Depression Scale, the Center fo...

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Published in:Psychiatry research 1987-11, Vol.22 (3), p.243-256
Main Authors: Plutchik, Robert, van Praag, Herman M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Depression
Depressive Disorder - diagnosis
Depressive Disorder - psychology
DSM-III criteria for depression
Female
Humans
Male
Manuals as Topic
measurement
Medical sciences
MMPI
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
self-report scales
Techniques and methods
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Summary:This article describes the construction of a new self-report scale based directly on the DSM-III criteria for major depressive disorder. It provides data on the interconvertability of scores on this scale with scores obtained on the Beck Depression Inventory, the Zung Depression Scale, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression (CES-D) Questionnaire, and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Depression Scale (MMPI-D). The article also examines the relation between physical principles of measurement as described by physicists and psychiatric measurement. It concludes with an analysis of the connection between the dichotomies typical of diagnostic statements and the continuous, probabilistic data typical of self-report instruments.
ISSN:0165-1781
1872-7123
DOI:10.1016/0165-1781(87)90039-4