Utility of the SCL-90-R With Depressed and Conduct-Disordered Adolescent Inpatients

1 December 1992

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Personality Assessment

Vol. 59 (3) , 552-563
https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa5903_9

Abstract

We assessed the ciiagnosric utility of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-9O-R) in a sample of adolescent inpatients. In Part 1 (n = 73), convergent and discriminant validity were demonstrated for SCL-90-R scales measuring depression and paranoid ideation, Canonical correlation showed that SCL-90-R scales tapped two dimensions of adolescent psychopathology, a primary dimension of dysphoria and a secondary dimension of anger and mistrust. In Part 2 (n = 50), adolescents diagnosed as having major depression showed significant elevations on scales measuring depression, anxiety, an obsessive-compulsive features. Although several scales had high diagnostic specificity for major depression and conduct dsorder, sensitivity was low.

Keywords

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: