Measuring Adolescent Depression: Factorial Validity and Invariance of the Beck Depression Inventory Across Gender

Factor Analytic Models: Viewing the Structure of an Assessment Instrument From Three Perspectives

“…Based on the early work of with nonclinical adolescents, a substantial amount of research has shown the BDI-I, and more recently the BDI-II (Byrne & Stewart, in press), to be most appropriately represented by a three-factor solution comprising the components of Negative Attitude, Performance Difficulty, and Somatic Elements. Although Byrne and colleagues , 1994Byrne, Baron, & Balev, 1996Byrne, Baron, & Campbell, 1993, 1994Byrne, Baron, Larsson, & Melin, 1995, 1996Byrne & Campbell, 1999;Byrne & Stewart, in press;Byrne, Stewart, & Lee, 2004) have shown this structure to be most optimal when represented as a higher order model (to be discussed later), it is instructive for my purposes here to view it first as a lower order model as presented in Figure 1. 1 Based on the geometric configurations noted previously, decomposition of this CFA model (Figure 1) conveys the following information:…”

“…Indeed, this higher order, four-factor structure was initially validated for the BDI-I by for three independent samples of Canadian adolescents. Its factorial validity was subsequently tested for Swedish (Byrne, Baron, Larsson, & Melin, 1995) and Bulgarian (Byrne, Baron, & Balev, 1998) adolescents and its invariance tested across gender (Byrne, Baron, & Balev, 1996;Byrne, Baron, & Campbell, 1993, 1994Byrne, Baron, Larsson, & Melin, 1996), across the three cultural groups noted previously (Byrne & Campbell, 1999) and across Canadian English and French cultural groups . More recently, the same higher order factor structure has been validated for American (Byrne & Stewart, in press) and Hong Kong adolescents (Byrne, Stewart, & Lee, in press), the latter being based on a Chinese version of the BDI-II.…”

Exploring Gender Equivalence and Bias in a Measure of Psychological Hardiness

“…Error correlation between item pairs can be justified because it often indicates perceived redundancy in item content or represents non-random error due to method effects (Byrne, Baron, & Campell, 1993). On these grounds, we considered it theoretically justified to include error correlations between said items because they are negatively keyed (DRS6 and DRS8) and/or belong to the same subscale (DRS6 and DRS8; DRS16 and DRS18).…”

Relation entre les comportements interpersonnels et la dépression chez des adolescents en fonction du genre /

“…L'instrument de mesure servant à évaluer la dépression dépend de l'honnêteté et de la capacité d'introspection du répondant à rapporter ses symptômes (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1990). Les adolescentes sont plus susceptibles d'endosser des items traduisant l'expérience dépressive que les adolescents (Byrne, Baron & Campbell, 1993).…”

“…Les adolescentes et les femmes reconnaissent plus facilement que les adolescents (garçons) et les hommes vivrent des sentiments dépressife (Baron & De Champlain, 1990;Byrne, Baron & Campbell, 1993, Hammen, 1998.…”