Citation

Joe S, Woolley ME, Brown GK, Ghahramanlou-Holloway M, Beck AT. J. Pers. Assess. 2008; 90(5): 521-523.

Affiliation

School of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. sjoe@umich.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Society for Personality Assessment, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/00223890802248919

PMID

18704812

PMCID

PMC2729713

Abstract

Cross-cultural examinations of the validity and reliability of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (Beck, Steer, Ball,&Ranieri, 1996) is essential for its use in assessment and monitoring of the effectiveness of suicide interventions across racial groups. We tested the fit of a second-order, two-factor model and the internal reliability of the BDI-II in a sample of 133 African Americans with a recent history of suicide attempts. Additionally, we examined the convergent validity with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (Reynolds&Koback, 1995). The results indicate that the BDI-II is a reliable and valid measure of depressive symptoms for African American suicide attempters.

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