COMPARISON OF BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY-IA AND INVENTORY-II IN PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENTS

The amended (revised) Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-IA; Beck & Steer, 1993b) and the Beck Depression inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck, Steer, & B rown, 1996) were self-administered to 140 psychiatric outpatients with various psychiatric disorders. The coefficient alphas of the BDI-IA a nd the BDI-II were, respectively, .89 and .91. The mean rating for Sad ness on the BDI-IA was higher than it was on the BDI-II, but the mean ratings for Past Failure, Self-Dislike, Change in Sleeping Pattern, an d Change in Appetite were higher on the BDI-II than they were on the B DI-IA. The mean BDI-II total score was approximately 2 points higher t han it was for the BDI-IA, and the outpatients also endorsed approxima tely one more symptom on the BDI-II than they did on the BDI-IA. The c orrelations of BDI-IA and BDI-II total scores with sex, ethnicity, age , the diagnosis of a mood disorder, and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (Be ck & Steer, 1993a) were within 1 point of each other for the same vari ables.