@article{ref1,
title="The latent structure of child depression: a taxometric analysis",
journal="Journal of child psychology and psychiatry",
year="2009",
author="Richey, J. Anthony and Schmidt, Norman B. and Lonigan, Christopher J. and Phillips, Beth M. and Catanzaro, Salvatore J. and Laurent, Jeff and Gerhardstein, Rebecca R. and Kotov, Roman",
volume="50",
number="9",
pages="1147-1155",
abstract="<p><b>Background:</b> The current study examined the categorical versus continuous nature of child and adolescent depression among three samples of children and adolescents ranging from 5 to 19 years.</p> <p><b>Methods:</b> Depression was measured using the Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI). Indicators derived from the CDI were based on factor analytic research on the CDI and included indices of: 1) social withdrawal, 2) anhedonia, 3) incompetence/maladjustment and 4) negative self‐esteem.</p> <p><b>Results:</b> Taxometric procedures provided convergent support for the existence of a latent taxon across three independent samples. Internal and external consistency tests as well as Monte Carlo simulations supported the validity of the results.</p> <p><b>Conclusions:</b> Multiple nonredundant procedures and samples were all consistently indicative of taxonicity in child depression.</p><p />",
language="",
issn="0021-9630",
doi="10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02085.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02085.x"
}