Reliability and Validity of the Beck Depression Inventory in a Dutch College Population
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 58 (3) , 696-698
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1986.58.3.696
Abstract
The reliability and the validity of the standard 21-item form of the Beck Depression Inventory were investigated for a sample of 85 female and 118 male university students. No sex differences were observed. The internal consistency reliability was .82. The Zung Self-rating Depression Scale was used as a congruent depression scale and correlated significantly with the Beck scores ( r = .69). The results indicate a satisfactory reliability and validity for the translated Beck inventory, although the use of a nonclinical sample prevents generalization to clinically depressed populations.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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