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Beck Depression Inventory Aaron. Beck, Gregory K. Brown, and Robert A. Steer ad + created in 1961 + Revised in 1996 af History 35 years Scanned with CamScanner Background and Development 1e Beck Depcession Inventory Second Edition (BOLI is 2 21-item sel ret intended to assess the existence and severity of 1 American Psychiatric ‘Manual of Mental Disorders new revised edition replaces the ys have iged to Indicate increases or decreases i slaep and appetite, sd innge, work cifcuty, weight less, and somatic tons labeled agitation, 80 9 patient is asked to consider each ave felt forthe past two oly eoreostmndto-Uhe OSNLIV criteria, Practical features F each item. The sum of + The BDI contains a four point scale for the ratings on the 21 items is then simply compared to the cut score guidelines in order to identify the interpretive range (Beck, Brown; & Steer, 1996). Time required for administration + Approximate! 5-10 utes is required for | Il. Patients with jepression or obsessional disorders + Administration styles ‘Two ways of administration are used. + Self administration Oral administration Scanned with CamScanner Description of test Items and scoring + The BDMIlis a self- report analysis of depressive symptoms. It is mot designed to be used for the actual diagnosis of depression (Sundberg, 1987). The wording of the BDI-I is clear and concise. The test contains 21 items, most of which assess depressive symptoms on a Likert scale of 0-3. The ‘two exceptions to this are questions 16 and 18, Question 16 . addresses changes in sleeping pattern, while question 18 addresses changes in appetite. The scale in these two items consist of 0, 1a, Ib, 2a, 2b, 3a, & 3c. People are asked to report feelings consistent with their own over the past 2 weeks instead of l week, as in the BDI and BDI-IA Authors' purpose and basis for selecting item * The items in the BDI-lI are designed to assess the severity of depression in adolescents and adults. This version of the testis specifically designed to address DSM-IV criteria for _ depression. The wording of all but three items has been | changed from that of the BDI-IA for clarity. A series of factor and item analyses were performed in order 10 reduce the total number of items on the test from 27 to 21 (Beck et Al, 1936), Lerten ‘ Cont’d + The reason for this is to be consistent with the DSM-IV criteria for depression. There were also two items added to indicate any directional changes in eating ‘and sleeping patterns. All forms of the inventory ‘are written at the Sth grade reading level (Canoley, 1987). Interpretation of scores is accomplished through criterion-réferenced procedures ing the following interpretive ranges: 0-13 - minimal depression; 14-19 - mild depression; 20-28 -moderate depression; and 29-63 - severe depression (Beck et al, 1996), enanatent ea INTERPRETING THE BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY! Now that you rave completed the questionnaire, add up the score for each of the twenty-one questions by counting the number to the rig of each question you marked. The highest possible total for the whole «test would be sixty-three. This would mean you circled number three Conall twenty-one questions. Since the lowest possible score for each rae uba ls 2et0, the lowest possible score forthe test would be zero, is would mean you circles zerg on each question, Scanned with CamScanner + Convergent vi ~ correlates wi | h Beck Hopelessness Scale | correlates with Sea | nar | = Mar + Diser Reliability + Internal Consistency, - — Coefficient Alpha + outpatients 92 outa Le JT nudents— 93 3s + Test-retest stabil — 26 Philadelphia outpatients administered BD! week apart. 4 —Test-retest r= .93 / Design Strengths and Weaknesses Strengths + Helpful to get empirical scores for depression. * Can use it again a few days later to track symptoms. sistency. as high content validity. Weatneses fot like a blood test where you get a more accurate result. * Clients can minimize or exaggerate when answering eee Scanned with CamScanner © Author(s): P J, PHD and Robert R, MeCrac, PhD one is data, they. recognized two more factors: Published the fist manual for the NEO, which included all Five factors in 1985, © Throughout the mid- to late-1990s, Costa an! McCrae began to realize that some items on the NEO-PI-R were outdated of too difficult to understand for participant. © They published the ‘latest version of the NEO Inventories, NEO-PI-3, in 2005 which included the revised 37 items, etegemo sett Scanned with CamScanner 2/22) Features OF NEO FFL 1 THE NEO-FFI-3 oLater a revision of the NEO Five-Factor mie Inventory (NEO-FFI™), is a 60-item poychomet o The NEOH understand ‘version of the NEO-PI-3 that provides © a quick, reliable, and accurate measure of the five domains of personality (Neuroticisin, Extraversion, Openness, ‘Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness)- 9 All items on the NEO-FEI-3 were taken directly from the NEO-PI-3. eeroty m trer © DESCRIPTION OF THE DOMAIN AND FACET SCALES 1, NEUROTICISM fies individuals who ere ss free floating anxiety, © Amery Hostility: tendency to experience anger and rel Angry Hest endeny cron test sn © Depression: tendency to experience fetings of guilt, sadness ty and loneliness 7 Eat ngs (I= eel ape 05 song 90) Sabecale: Sb es. ech ih ne (Oe rao 8 fem and urges. Scanned with CamScanner 3.OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE Experience: the active seeking and

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