Structure of Depression in Black Alcoholic Men
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 41 (3_suppl) , 1235-1241
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1977.41.3f.1235
Abstract
The Beck Depression Inventory was self-administered to 103 black men receiving outpatient treatment for alcoholism, and scores were subjected to factor analyses using a maximum-likelihood solution. Three meaningful oblique dimensions were identified as Cognitive-affective Impairment, Retarded Depression, and Escapism. The factor structure of the black alcoholic men was descriptively compared to those previously reported for racially heterogeneous alcoholic patients and for primarily depressed patients; the factors of depression for the black alcoholic men were comparable to those described for the other two clinical samples.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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