Psychometric properties of a Persian-language version of the Beck Depression Inventory-second edition: BDI-II-Persian

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 185-192

  Ghassemzadeh, Habibollah ^a   Mojtabai, Ramin ^b   Karamghadiri, Narges ^a   Ebrahimkhani, Narges ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Beck Depression Inventory II; Cross cultural comparison; Psychometric study; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 23844505268     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20070     Document Type: Article

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