- Title
- Children's depression inventory: Invariance across children and adolescents with and without depressive disorders
- Creator
- Gomez, Rapson; Vance, Alasdair; Gomez, Andre
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/103294
- Identifier
- vital:10903
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024966
- Identifier
- ISSN:10403590
- Abstract
- In the study, the authors examined the measurement (configural, factor loadings, thresholds, and error variances) and structural (factor variances, covariances, and mean scores) invariance of the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI; Kovacs, 1992) across ratings provided by clinic-referred children and adolescents with (N = 383) and without (N = 412) depressive disorders. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis of the Craighead, Smucker, Craighead, and Ilardi (1998) CDI model supported full measurement invariance and invariance for structural variances and covariances. Invariance for thresholds was also supported by multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) procedures that controlled for the effects of age; sex; and the presence or absence of anxiety disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and oppositional defiant/conduct disorders. The MIMIC analyses showed that for latent mean scores, the group with depressive disorders had higher scores, with at least medium effect sizes, for Self-Deprecation and Biological Dysregulation. The theoretical, psychometric, and clinical implications of the findings are discussed. © 2011 American Psychological Association.
- Relation
- Psychological Assessment Vol. 24, no. 1 (2012), p. 1-10
- Rights
- © 2011 American Psychological Association
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Children's Depression Inventory; Depressed versus nondepressed; Measurement invariance; Adolescent; Age; Anxiety disorder; Attention deficit disorder; Child; Conduct disorder; Controlled study; Depression; Depression inventory; DSM-IV; Error; Female; Gender; Human; Major clinical study; Male; Oppositional defiant disorder; Patient referral; Psychometry; School child; Semi structured interview; Evaluation; Factorial analysis; Methodology; Pathophysiology; Psychological aspect; Psychological rating scale; Reproducibility; Self concept; Self report; Sex difference; Standard; Statistical model; Statistics; Age factors; Anxiety Disorders; Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders; Depressive Disorder; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Humans; Models, Statistical; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Psychometrics; Reproducibility of Results; Sex Factors; 1701 Psychology; 1503 Business and Management
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