BDI: The Beck Depression Inventory Data
In KernSmoothIRT: Nonparametric Item Response Theory
Description
Usage
Format
Source
References
Description
The Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, Rush, Shaw & Emery, 1979) is a 21-question self-report inventory, one of the most widely used instruments for measuring the severity of depression.
Each question has a set of four possible answer choices, ranging in intensity.
In this dataset, the respondents are 242 McGill University students.
The data were collected by Prof. David Zuroff.
Usage
1
Format
BDIkeya numeric vector with the highest level ordinal response for each of the 21 questions.
BDIresponsesis a numeric matrix with examinees responses. Each column represents a question and each row represents a subject; thus, BDIresponses has 242 rows and 21 columns.
Source
Ramsay JO (2000).
TestGraf: A program for the graphical analysis of multiple choice test and questionnaire data.
References
Beck, A. T., Rush, A., Shaw, B. and Emery, G. (1979).
Cognitive Therapy of Depression,
New York: Guilford Press.
Santor, D. A., Ramsay, J. O. and Zuroff, D. C. (1994).
Nonparametric item analyses of the Beck Depression Inventory: Evaluating gender item bias and response option weights.
Psychological Assessment, 6, 255-270.
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Description Usage Format Source References
Description
The Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, Rush, Shaw & Emery, 1979) is a 21-question self-report inventory, one of the most widely used instruments for measuring the severity of depression. Each question has a set of four possible answer choices, ranging in intensity. In this dataset, the respondents are 242 McGill University students. The data were collected by Prof. David Zuroff.
Usage
1 |
Format
BDIkeya numeric vector with the highest level ordinal response for each of the 21 questions.
BDIresponsesis a numeric matrix with examinees responses. Each column represents a question and each row represents a subject; thus,
BDIresponseshas 242 rows and 21 columns.
Source
Ramsay JO (2000). TestGraf: A program for the graphical analysis of multiple choice test and questionnaire data.
References
Beck, A. T., Rush, A., Shaw, B. and Emery, G. (1979). Cognitive Therapy of Depression, New York: Guilford Press.
Santor, D. A., Ramsay, J. O. and Zuroff, D. C. (1994). Nonparametric item analyses of the Beck Depression Inventory: Evaluating gender item bias and response option weights. Psychological Assessment, 6, 255-270.
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