Further Evidence for the Construct Validity of the Beck Depression Inventory-II with Psychiatric Outpatients

Robert A. Steer, Roberta Ball, William F. Ranieri, Aaron T. Beck

Psychological Reports · 1997 · 348 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

To provide further information about the construct validity of the Beck Depression Inventory-II the inventory was administered to 210 psychiatric outpatients along with Derogatis' SCL 90-R. As hypothesized, the Beck Depression Inventory-II was more positively correlated with scores on the Depression subscale (r = .89) than it was with scores on the Anxiety subscale of the SCL-90-R (r = .71).

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