Validity of the Beck Depression Inventory

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The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a widely used instrument in the measuring of depression and its severity. BDI is a simple instrument: there are twenty-one multiple-choice items; the respondent answers according to his or her feelings as remembered over the past two weeks. The BDI was developed in 1961 for use in care situations so that patients who may have a mood disorder could be detected, but was not originally designed to make a diagnosis. The instrument was revised in accordance to changes made in DSM IV (APA, 1994) for Major Depressive Disorder — the items now match more closely the list of symptoms in the DSM — and is now used primarily to measure the severity of depression in patients diagnosed with depression, though other uses (including more purely diagnostic purposes) remain prominent as well. However, some critics still believe that the BDI, or any self-report instrument, is insufficient to diagnose the disorder of depression. (Coyne, 1994) It should be noted that BDI is often used to screen, or as part of a diagnosis, rather than being used as a singular diagnostic tool.

Introduction.
1. The current Buck Depression Inventory - BDI - II.
2. BDI - II administered after the diagnosis of depression has been made.
3. The major critique against BDI.
Article summaries research.
Limitations of current study.
Literature.
1. Self-Reporting.
2. Mood and memory.
The validity of BDI.
Article analysis.
1. Self-reporting correlation with claims.
2. Locander, Sudman and Bradburn's test on self-reporting on five types of behaviour.
3. Depression and the society.
4. The process of 'Mood Repair'.
5. Beebe et al's test on 323 no clinical college students in 1996.
6. Nelson and Novy's test on 220 back pain patients in 1997.
7. Scafidi et al's test on adolescent mothers in 1999.
8. Conclusion with regard to BDI.
The limitations of the studies.
The issue of retest reliability.
Conclusion.
1. Limitations to the validity of BDI.
2. Solution to the problem of 'fake-good' measures in BDI.
3. The uses of BDI-PC.