Ra. Steer et al., FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR THE CONSTRUCT-VALIDITY OF THE BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY-II WITH PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENTS, Psychological reports, 80(2), 1997, pp. 443-446
To provide further information about the construct validity of the Bec
k Depression Inventory-II the inventory was administered to 210 psychi
atric outpatients along with Derogatis' SCL-90-R. As hypothesized, the
Beck Depression Inventory-II was more positively correlated with scor
es on the Depression subscale (r = .89) than it was with scores on the
Anxiety subscale of the SCL-90-R (r = .71).