B. Lubin et R. Vanwhitlock, DEVELOPMENT OF A CRITICAL ITEM SCALE FOR THE DEPRESSION ADJECTIVE CHECK LISTS, Journal of clinical psychology, 50(6), 1994, pp. 841-846
A critical item scale for the Depression Adjective Check Lists was dev
eloped on two psychiatric patient samples and a college student sample
. Items that differentiated the nondepressed from the severely depress
ed subgroup of a community mental health center were cross-validated i
n the other two samples. A four-adjective Critical Item Scale thereby
was constructed for each list of Set 2 (E, F, G) of the Depression Adj
ective Check Lists.