Percentile Norms and Accompanying Interval Estimates from an Australian General Adult Population Sample for Self-Report Mood Scales (BAI, BDI, CRSD, CES-D, DASS, DASS-21, STAI-X, STAI-Y, SRDS, and SRAS)

Australian Psychologist

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-14

  Crawford, John ^a   Cayley, Carol ^b   Lovibond, Peter F ^c   Wilson, Peter H ^d   Hartley, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d University of Kurdistan Hewlêr   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Bayesian methods; Computer scoring; Depression; Interval estimates; Percentile norms; Self report scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952030940     PISSN: 00050067     EISSN: 17429544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-9544.2010.00003.x     Document Type: Article

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