Relationship between Set 2 of the Depression Adjective Check Lists (DACL) and Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS)

Abstract

This paper reports the relationship between Set 2 of the Depression Adjective Check Lists and the Self-rating Depression Scale. Psychiatric inpatients (Admission Wards, N = 51; Intensive Treatment Wards, N = 54) and 47 student nurses completed the DACL and the SDS which were presented in random order. All rs among the 3 lists of Set 2 of the DACL and the SDS total score were significant ( p = .01). All rs between the 3 DACLs and SDS factors (Pervasive Affect, Physiological Equivalents, and Psychological Equivalents) were significant, except that rs between Pervasive Affect and DACLs were not significant for the student nurse group. As Pervasive Affect seems to refer to the chronicity of the syndrome, the nonsignificant rs for this group are expected.

Correlates of depressive mood among normals

“…The Center for Epidemiologic Studies of Depression Scale is essentially a combination of the Zung Depression Scale (Zung, 1965) and the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck et al, 1961). Significant correlations with the DACL previously were found for both of these instruments for female psychiatric patients (Lubin, 1967) and for female student nurses (Marone & Lubin, 1968). Also, significant correlations were found in a recent study of normals, both males and females (Christenson, Lubin, & Satin, 1978).…”

Functionalvs. organic pain: A meaningful distinction?

“…This is a 20-item quantitative measure of depression with questions in the areas of pervasive affect and physiological and psychological concomitants of depression. Researchers who have used the SDS have been able to distinguish between chronically depressed patients and those with other psychiatric diagnoses (Zung, 1965(Zung, , 1967 and have demonstrated significant correlation with other measures of depression (Brown & Zung, 1972;Marone & Lubin, 1968;Zung, 1969;Zung, Richards, & Short, 1965). Odd-even correlations of .73 (p 5 .01) have been reported (Zung, 1972).…”

Correlates of depression in chronic dialysis patients: Morbidity and mortality

“…The instrument consisted of two sets of lists: each of the equivalent lists (A, B, C, and D) in set 1 contained 32 nonoverlapping adjectives while each in set 2 (equivalent lists E, F, and G) contained 34 nonoverlapping adjectives. Despite the brevity of each list, adequate reliability (Lubin & Himelstein, 1976) and concurrent validity have been demonstrated (Christenfeld, Lubin, 8~ Satin, 1978;Lubin, 1981;Marone & Lubin, 1968). The DACL has been used in a large number of clinical, experimental, and epidemiological studies (Lubin, 1981).…”