Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Beck Depression Inventory-ll Using the Rasch Model

Abstract

The authors investigated the Chinese version of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II-C: Chinese Behavioral Science Corporation. 2000) within the Rasch framework in terms of dimensionality, item difficulty, and category functioning. Two underlying scale dimensions, relatively high item difficulties, and a need for collapsing 2 response categories of the BD1- Il-C were identified for high school students in Taiwan.