Children's depression inventory: Invariance across children and adolescents with and without depressive disorders

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-10

  Gomez, Rapson ^a   Vance, Alasdair ^b   Gomez, Andre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children's Depression Inventory; Depressed versus nondepressed; Measurement invariance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILDREN'S DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION INVENTORY; DSM-IV; ERROR; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; EVALUATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84863113747     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024966     Document Type: Article

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