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rdf:type |
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lifeskim:mentions |
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pubmed:issue |
3
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pubmed:dateCreated |
1994-6-9
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pubmed:abstractText |
Confirmatory factor-analytic models are used to examine gender biases of individual items of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale. In samples containing 708 cancer patients and 504 caregivers of the chronically ill elderly, two CES-D items are identified as producing biased responses in comparisons of male and female respondents. Three additional CES-D items are excluded on the basis of other psychometric problems, yielding a subset of 15 CES-D items that capture almost all the information of the original 20-item CES-D scale but are free of any gender bias. Gender differences in mean levels of depressive symptomatology are significantly reduced, but not eliminated, when the 15-item scale is used.
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pubmed:grant |
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pubmed:language |
eng
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pubmed:journal |
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pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:month |
Dec
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pubmed:issn |
0165-1781
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pubmed:author |
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pubmed:issnType |
Print
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pubmed:volume |
49
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
239-50
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pubmed:dateRevised |
2008-4-17
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pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Activities of Daily Living,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Adolescent,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Adult,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Aged,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Aged, 80 and over,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Bias (Epidemiology),
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Caregivers,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Cross-Sectional Studies,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Depression,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Depressive Disorder,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Incidence,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Michigan,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Middle Aged,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Neoplasms,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Pennsylvania,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Personality Inventory,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Psychometrics,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Rural Population,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Sex Factors,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Sick Role,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Social Support,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Somatoform Disorders,
pubmed-meshheading:8177918-Urban Population
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pubmed:year |
1993
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pubmed:articleTitle |
Gender bias in the measurement properties of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D).
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pubmed:affiliation |
College of Nursing, Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing 48824-1317.
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
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