An examination of the internal structure of the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale in two medical samples

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 735-743

  Helmes, Edward ^b   Nielson, Warren R ^a  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Depression; Factor analysis; Pain; Procrustes rotation; Test construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032186502     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00110-X     Document Type: Article

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