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A 4 page research paper that offers a comprehensive evaluation of the Beck Depression Inventory. The writer draws on the Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook to offer reviews and discussions of this psychometric instrument's reliability and validity. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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by Aaron T. Beck, Robert A. Steer and Gregory K. Brown, it was originally developed in 1961, but revised in 1996 with the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II). Published by The
Psychological Corporation, the BDI-II is intended for populations over the age of 13 and can be administered either individually or to a group, with prices ranged accordingly. This is
a quick evaluation of depression that is estimated to take between five to ten minutes to administer. While the 2001 edition of the Buros Institutes Mental Measurements Yearbook contained only
two reviews of this instrument, the "cross references" section provided by the editors indicated that the BDI-II has been extensively utilized and evaluated. Arbisi (2001) and Farmer (2001) applaud
the revision of the BDI as a substantial improvement over the original, as the revision takes into account new data of depression and adheres more closely to current DSM-IV criteria.
Arbisi asserts that the psychometric properties of the BDI-II are sound (2001). Coefficient alpha estimates of reliability for the BDI-II with outpatients was .92 and was .93 for the non-clinical
sample. The test-retest reliability coefficient across the period of a week was also high at .93 (Arbisi, 2001). Farmer states that two sample groups were recruited to evaluate the psychometric
characteristics of the BDI-II: a clinical sample (n-500, 63 percent female; 91 percent white) and a "convenience" sample of Canadian college students (n=120, 56 percent female, predominantly white) (2001, p.
124). Farmer comments that the BDI-II did a "good job" of discriminating across estimated levels of depression severity, but he also criticizes the manual for failing to provide detailed discussions
of item-option characteristic curves and their interpretation (2001, p. 125). In Farmers study, reliability of the BDI was evaluated using multiple methods. Internal consistency was evaluated by employing
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