YouthDep: Youth Depression Indicators

In MPsychoR: Modern Psychometrics with R

Description

Contains Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) measures of sixth and seventh grade students. In total, there are 26 CDI items (on of the original CDI items asking about suicidal ideation was removed) with three response categories each (e.g., 0 = nobody really loves me, 1 = I am not sure if anybody loves me, or 2 = I am sure that somebody loves me).

Usage

data("YouthDep")

Format

A data frame with 2290 on the following 27 variables.

CDI1

I am sad all the time

CDI2r

Nothing will ever work out for me

CDI3

I do everything wrong

CDI4

Nothing is fun at all

CDI5r

I am bad all the time

CDI6

I am sure that terrible things will happen to me

CDI7r

I hate myself

CDI8r

All bad things are my fault

CDI10r

I feel like crying every day

CDI11r

Things bother me all the time

CDI12

I do not want to be with people at all

CDI13r

I cannot make up my mind about things

CDI14

I look ugly

CDI15r

I have to push myself all the time to do my schoolwork

CDI16r

I have trouble sleeping every night

CDI17

I am tired all the time

CDI18r

Most days I do not feel like eating

CDI19

I do not worry about aches and pains

CDI20

I do not feel alone

CDI21r

I never have fun at school

CDI22

I do not have any friends

CDI23

I do very badly in subjects I used to be good in

CDI24r

I can never be as good as other kids

CDI25r

Nobody really loves me

CDI26

I never do what I am told

CDI27

I get into fights all the time

race

Children's race

Source

Vaughn-Coaxum, R. A., Mair, P., & Weisz, J. R. (2015). Racial/ethnic differences in youth depression indicators: An Item Response Theory analysis of symptoms reported by White, Black, Asian, and Latino youths. Clinical Psychological Science, 4, 239-253.

Examples

data(YouthDep)
head(YouthDep)
str(YouthDep)

MPsychoR documentation built on June 15, 2020, 3 p.m.