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Psychometric Properties of Children's Depression Inventory in Community and Clinical Samples

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The psychometric characteristics of the Children's Depression Inventory, CDI (Kovacs, 1992) in a sample of 1705 participants (792 boys and 913 girls) and a clinical sample of 102 participants (42 boys and 60 girls) between 10 and 18 years old are presented. Reliability coefficients range, for both samples, from .82 (test) to .84 (retest) in the community sample, and .85 (test, clinical sample); test-retest reliability is .81 in the community sample. The mean scores are similar to other Spanish and English ones. Girls score higher than boys. The cut-off point that best differentiates between depressive and community participants is 19, with a sensitivity of 94.7%, a specificity of 95.6%, a positive predictive value of .90, and a negative predictive value of .98.

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Depressió psíquica en els infants, Psicometria, Tests psicològics per a infants, Adolescència

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Depression in children, Psychometrics, Psychological tests for children, Adolescence

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FIGUERAS MASIP, Anna, et al. Psychometric Properties of Children's Depression Inventory in Community and Clinical Samples. Spanish Journal of Psychology. 2010. Vol. 13, num. 2, pags. 988-997. ISSN 1138-7416. [consulted: 9 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/124490

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