Cross-cultural comparison of depressive symptoms on the Beck Depression Inventory-II, across six population samples

Background The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and BDI-II (revised version) are some of the most widely used and comparable self-report scales for assessing the presence and severity of depressive symptoms in many countries. However, although the relative mean score of each symptom in different coun...

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Main Authors: Marjo Seppänen, Tiina Lankila, Juha Auvinen, Jouko Miettunen, Raija Korpelainen, Markku Timonen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2022-03-01
Series:BJPsych Open
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056472422000138/type/journal_article