Gender-Related Invariance of the Beck Depression Inventory II for Taiwanese Adolescent Samples

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Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 218-226

  Wu, Pei Chen ^a   Huang, Tsai Wei ^b  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

adolescents; Beck Depression Inventory; depression; gender invariance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; TAIWAN;

ADOLESCENT; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84900445709     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191112441243     Document Type: Article

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