Reliability and Validity of Two Self-Rating Scales in the Assessment of Childhood Depression

Fundudis, Trian; Tp, Berney; Kolvin, I.; Oo, Famuyiwa; Barrett, Linda; Bhate, Surya; Tyrer, Stephen

doi:10.1192/s0007125000292131

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“…The CDI demonstrated significant validity when correlated with the Standardized Psychiatric Interview. [42] Cronbach's alpha in the current study was 0.86.…”

Section: Children's Depression Inventory (Cdi)mentioning

confidence: 45%

Adolescent attachment, family functioning and depressive symptoms

2015

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Background. Adolescence represents a challenging transitional period where changes in biological, emotional, cognitive and social domains can increase the risk of developing internalised problems including subthreshold depression. Adolescent-parent attachment style, perceived support and family functioning may increase risk for depressive symptoms or may reduce such risk. Adolescent-parent attachment, adolescentperceived support from parents and family functioning were examined as correlates of depressive symptom presentation within this age group. Methods. Participants included a maternal parent and an adolescent (65.5% female) from each family. Adolescents were in Grade 7 (n=175) or Grade 10 (n=31). Data were collected through home interviews. The Self-Report of Family Inventory (SFI), Experiences of Close Relationships Scale (ECR), Network of Relationships Inventory (NRI), Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) and Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) were used to assess depression, parental support and attachment. Results. Two models were examined: one with adolescent report of depressive symptoms as the outcome and a second with parent report of adolescent internalising symptoms as the outcome. The model predicting adolescent-reported depressive symptoms was significant with older age, higher levels of avoidant attachment, and higher levels of youth-reported dysfunctional family interaction associated with more depressive symptomatology. In the model predicting parent report of adolescent internalising symptoms only higher levels of dysfunctional family interaction, as reported by the parent, were associated with higher levels of internalising symptoms. Conclusion. Positive family communication, cohesion and support predictive of a secure parent-adolescent attachment relationship reduced the risk of a depressive symptom outcome. Secure adolescents were able to regulate their emotions, knowing that they could seek out secure base attachment relations within their family and from friends during times of stress, buffering against the development of depressive symptoms.

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“…The CDI demonstrated significant validity when correlated with the Standardized Psychiatric Interview. [42] Cronbach's alpha in the current study was 0.86.…”

Section: Children's Depression Inventory (Cdi)mentioning

confidence: 45%

Adolescent attachment, family functioning and depressive symptoms

2015

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“…Individual item scores ranged from 0 to 2 with higher ratings indicating more severe symptoms. The CDI has relatively high internal consistency and stability and has been validated using normative and clinic-referred samples (Fundulis et al, 1991). The score on the CDI was calculated by summing the 26 individual item scores at each wave and then taking the mean of these two summed scores (M 5 9.85, SD 5 6.47, skewness 5 .91, kurtosis 5 .56).…”

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The Timing of Middle‐Childhood Peer Rejection and Friendship: Linking Early Behavior to Early‐Adolescent Adjustment

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This study used a sample of 551 children surveyed yearly from ages 6 to 13 to examine the longitudinal associations among early behavior, middle-childhood peer rejection and friendedness, and early-adolescent depressive symptoms, loneliness, and delinquency. The study tested a sequential mediation hypothesis in which (a) behavior problems in the early school years are associated with middle-childhood peer rejection and (b) rejection, in turn, leads to lower friendedness and subsequently higher adolescent internalizing-but not externalizing-problems. Results supported this sequential mediation model for internalizing outcomes and revealed an additional path from early disruptiveness to loneliness via peer rejection alone. No evidence of sequential mediation was observed for delinquency.

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“…A set of questions on demographic and family issues was given to the parents in connection with the RA2. (5) The CDI (14,19,20), shown to tap depressive symptoms in children (23,28), was chosen as the children's self-report questionnaire. The scale was reviewed by Costello and Angold (9) and could be regarded as valid for our purposes, a view also supported by results published by Hodges (16).…”

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Behavioural and emotional symptoms in 8–9-year-old children

Almqvist

Kumpulainen

Ikäheimo

et al. 1999

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

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We present epidemiological data from a multi-centre study on psychiatric symptoms among 6017 8-9-year-old children representing a total annual birth cohort (N = 60007) in Finland. The results are based on three questionnaires: the Rutter Parent Scale (RA2), the Rutter Teacher Scale (RB2), the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI). The proportion of children that scored above the cutoff points, indicating probable psychiatric disturbance, were 11.2% for the RA2, 13.9% for the RB2 and 6.9% for the CDI. Twenty-four percent of the subjects scored above the cutoff point on at least one of the questionnaires. Low family social status and disrupted family relations correlated strongly with high rates of symptoms in the children.

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Reliability and Validity of Two Self-Rating Scales in the Assessment of Childhood Depression

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Adolescent attachment, family functioning and depressive symptoms

Adolescent attachment, family functioning and depressive symptoms

The Timing of Middle‐Childhood Peer Rejection and Friendship: Linking Early Behavior to Early‐Adolescent Adjustment

Behavioural and emotional symptoms in 8–9-year-old children

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