Journal Articles
Validating the Beck Depression Inventory-II for Hong Kong community adolescents
- Validating the Beck Depression Inventory-II for Hong Kong community adolescents
- International Journal of Testing, 4(3), 199-216, 2004
- Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
- 2004
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Unknown or Unspecified
- The primary purpose of this study was to test for the validity of a Chinese version of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (C-BDI-II) for use with Hong Kong community (i.e., nonclinical) adolescents. Based on a randomized triadic split of the data (N = 1460), we conducted exploratory factor analysis on Group1 (n = 486) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) within the framework of structural equation modeling on Groups 2 (n = 487) and 3 (n = 487); the second CFA served as a cross-validation of the determined factor structure. Factor analytic results, based on a 4-factor structure that comprised 1 2nd-order general factor of Depression and 3 1st-order factors representing Negative Attitude, Performance Difficulty, and Somatic Elements, replicated those reported previously for Canadian (Byrne&Baron, 1993), Swedish (Byrne, Baron, Larsson,&Melin, 1995), and Bulgarian (Byrne, Baron,&Balev, 1998) nonclinical adolescents. Based on this cross-validated factor structure, findings related to internal consistency reliability, stability over a 6-month time lag, and relations with relevant external criteria provided strong support for the valid use of the C-BDI-II in measuring depressive symptoms for Hong Kong community adolescents. [Copyright of International Journal of Testing is the property of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327574ijt0403_1]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 15305058
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/6821011e
- 2010-09-27
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