Study Tiedje et al. (1990): study US 1985
- Public
- Married women with a preschool child, USA, 1985
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 158
- Non Response
- 22%
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
2 hours at home or workplace
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Depression
- Our Classification
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- Error Estimates
- alpha =.85
- Remarks
- Depression subscale of the SCL-90-R(Symptom Checklist 90 Revised). The SCL-90-R is a tool to assess symptoms of psychopathology. The person reports the level of distress he experienced in the past week from a list of 90 descriptions of physical and mental complaints.
- Distribution
- N = 148 M = 1,93 (with correction for SCL raw scores .93) SD = .52, range 1-3,92
- Operationalization
- Self report on 13 questions about feelings in the past week such as loss of energy, crying easily, feeling lonely, feeling blue, feeling no interest in things, and feeling everything was an effort.
Range 1-5. Lower numbers reflect less depression.