Abstract

SANZ, Jesús  and  GARCIA-VERA, María Paz. Diagnostic performance and factorial structure of the Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition (BDI-II).. Anal. Psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.29, n.1, pp.66-75. ISSN 1695-2294.  https://dx.doi.org/10.6018/analesps.29.1.130532.

This study had to aims. The first aim was to analyze the diagnostic performance of the Spanish version of the Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition (BDI-II) in a sample of patients with psychological disorders. The second aim was to examine whether the one- and two-factor solutions previously found for the BDI-II in similar samples are replicable, and, if it is so, to analyze the independent contribution of the general factor and the two specific factors to the variance of the BDI-II. The BDI-II, along with the mood disorder module of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I disorders, Clinical Version (SCID-I VC) and a clinician-administered checklist for depressive symptoms, were administered to a Spanish sample of 322 adult outpatients with a variety of psychological disorders. Taking as a criterion the clinical diagnosis based on the SCID-I VC and the checklist for depressive symptoms, the BDI-II showed an acceptable diagnostic performance to discriminate between patients with major depressive disorder and those without depression. Factor analyses suggested that the BDI-II assess a general depression dimension composed of two related factors (somatic and cognitive symptoms), but these factors hardly explained any additional variance beyond accounted for by the full-scale score.

Keywords : Depression; BDI-II; diagnosis; factorial structure; psychopathological patients.

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