At. Beck et al., COMPARISON OF BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY-IA AND INVENTORY-II IN PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENTS, Journal of personality assessment, 67(3), 1996, pp. 588-597
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.