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Development and Validation of an Exploratory Measure to Assess Student Coping: The Student Coping Scale
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Boujut, Emile – College Student Journal, 2013
Students is a very specific population according to their manner to cope with stress. A coping questionnaire for students was developed and administered to 1100 French students at the beginning of the term (T1). Principal Component Analysis of responses, followed by varimax rotations, yielded three factors accounting for 50.5% of the total…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Coping, College Students
The Measurement of Depression: Enhancing the Predictive Validity of the Beck Depression Inventory.
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Burkhart, Barry R.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1984
Investigated whether the predictive validity of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) could be enhanced by having subjects (N=600 students) complete current and projected BDI protocols. Results confirmed that BDI scores typically decline with repeated administrations, suggesting the BDI does not discriminate between stable and unstable forms of…
Descriptors: College Students, Depression (Psychology), Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
An Attempt to Reverse Performance Deficits Associated With Depression and Experimentally Induced Helplessness
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Kilpatrick-Tabak, Blair; Roth, Susan – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1978
The learned helplessness model of depression predicts that any effective treatment for reactive depression should also reverse performance deficits associated with experimentally induced helplessness, and vice versa. This study tests that prediction with college students who were exposed to experimental manipulations designed to induce…
Descriptors: College Students, Depression (Psychology), Helplessness, Performance Factors
Assessing the Stability of Depression in College Students.
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Tanaka, J. S.; Huba, G. J. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1987
Two approaches are used to assess the one-month stability of depression affect in college students: (1) a high retest correlation is demonstrated for a latent depressive affect construct using self-reports from the previous month; and (2) predictive validity of depressive categorization is examined using logistic regression techniques. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Affective Measures, College Students, Depression (Psychology), Higher Education
Criterion Validity, Severity Cut Scores, and Test-Retest Reliability of the Beck Depression Inventory-II in a University Counseling Center Sample
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Sprinkle, Stephen D.; Lurie, Daphne; Insko, Stephanie L.; Atkinson, George; Jones, George L.; Logan, Arthur R.; Bissada, Nancy N. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2002
The criterion validity of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; A. T. Beck, R. A. Steer, & G. K. Brown, 1996) was investigated by pairing blind BDI-II administrations with the major depressive episode portion of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I; M. B. First, R. L. Spitzer, M. Gibbon, & J. B. W.…
Descriptors: Severity (of Disability), Guidance Centers, Predictive Validity, Cutting Scores
A Methodological Contribution to Identifying Depressed College Students.
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Funabiki, Dean; And Others – 1981
Research directed toward examining clinical depression among college students requires valid criterion measures for identifying depressed individuals. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the most widely-used self-report screening instrument for identifying depressed college students, has been criticized for its heavy emphasis on cognitive items…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Processes