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Sourcebook of Adult Assessment Strategies

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The CES-D, as it is almost always called, is a 20-item measure of depression developed by Radloff (1977) for use in survey research. It can be used as an interview schedule or a questionnaire. Radloff generated the items on the basis of items used in previously validated depression scales such as the Beck Depression Inventory and the Zung Depression Scale. She chose the items to represent six major components of depression identified in clinical writings and factor analyses: “depressed mood, feelings of guilt and worthlessness, feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, psychomotor retardation, loss of appetite, and sleep disturbance” (Radloff, 1977, p. 386). The scale has recently been used for quick screening of medical patients as well as epidemiological research.

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Schutte, N.S., Malouff, J.M. (1995). Mood Disorders. In: Sourcebook of Adult Assessment Strategies. Applied Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1277-0_5

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