A Brief Version of the Geriatric Depression Scale for the Chinese.
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Psychological Assessment
- Vol. 16 (2), 182-186
- https://doi.org/10.1037/1040-3590.16.2.182
Abstract
Elderly persons (N=310) attending outpatient psychiatric clinics were given an interview on the 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale (T. L. Brink et al., 1982; J. A. Yesavage et al., 1983) and received an independent psychiatric evaluation. A 3-step binary logistic regression showed that 2 items measuring positive affect and 2 others measuring negative affect combined to produce diagnostic performance comparable with the full scale. This result was cross-validated on a different sample (N=134). A hierarchical measurement model in which the 4 items tapped 2 first-order factors (positive and negative affect), which in turn tapped a higher order construct of depression, provided excellent fit to the data.Keywords
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