Rasch analysis of a simplified Beck Depression Inventory

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 530-535

  Sauer, Sebastian ^a   Ziegler, Matthias ^b   Schmitt, Manfred ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c University of Koblenz   (Germany)

Author keywords

BDI; Beck's Depression Inventory; Depression; Item response theory; Rasch

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871699569     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.025     Document Type: Article

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