Depression, General Anxiety, Test Anxiety, and Rigidity of Gifted Junior High and High School Children

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1128-1130 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Beer
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Children's Depression Inventory ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
Children’S Depression Inventory ◽  
Children’S Depression

27 gifted students in junior high and high school from north central Kansas school districts were administered the Children's Depression Inventory, the Beck Depression Scale, Test Anxiety Scale, General Anxiety Scale, and Breskin's Rigidity Scale. Sex, age, and grade were not considered, as the sample was small. The gifted students' mean scores for depression were below the cut-off score while their test anxiety, general anxiety, and rigidity scores were at moderate levels. Pearson correlations were significant for Beck Depression with the Children's Depression ( r = .82) and General Anxiety Scales ( r = .60). Scores on the General Anxiety Scale correlated significantly with those on the Children's Depression Inventory ( r = .69) and the Test Anxiety Scale ( r = .55). Rigidity scores were not correlated significantly with any other measure and scores on the depression scales did not correlate significantly with those on the Test Anxiety Scale.

Can Child Self-Report Measures of Depression and Anxiety Be Used in College Samples?

2007 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 827-837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsty F. Weir ◽  
Paul E. Jose
Keyword(s):  
Internalizing Symptoms ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Children's Depression Inventory ◽  
Children’S Depression Inventory ◽  
Children’S Depression ◽  
Manifest Anxiety

Depression and anxiety are typically measured in college samples using adult scales. However, some child and adolescent versions of internalizing symptoms may be appropriate for use with college samples. Child versions may be appropriate to use with college samples when multi-sample designs are utilized, e.g., both children and adults are assessed. To explore this possibility, 149 college students ( M age = 21.9 yr., SD = 6.3; 43 men, 106 women) were assessed on child and adolescent versions and adult scales of anxiety, i.e., the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale and the Beck Anxiety Inventory, and depression, i.e., the Children's Depression Inventory and the Beck Depression Inventory. Both sets of depression scores were highly correlated ( r = .81), which suggests that the children's measure can be used in college samples. Although scores on the two anxiety scales were also significantly correlated, these scales shared less common variance. An exploratory factor analysis provided evidence that a single factor composed of all items for depression was an optimal solution. It was concluded that the Children's Depression Inventory can be used with college samples; however, the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale should not.

Psychosocial Characteristics of Homeless Children and Children With Homes

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen L. Bassuk ◽  
Lynn Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Child Behavior ◽  
Child Behavior Checklist ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Homeless Children ◽  
Children's Depression Inventory ◽  
Children’S Depression Inventory ◽  
Children’S Depression ◽  
Poor Children ◽  
Manifest Anxiety

A comparison was made of 86 children from 49 homeless Boston families headed by women and 134 children from 81 housed Boston families headed by women. In both groups, the mothers were poor, currently single, and had been receiving welfare payments for long periods. Data were collected from the mothers by personal interview; standardized tests were administered to mothers and children (Denver Developmental Screening Test, Simmons Behavior Checklist, Children's Depression Inventory, Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, and Child Behavior Checklist. The data indicate that many homeless children and poor children with homes have severe and pressing problems. Among preschool children, a higher proportion of homeless children than poor children with homes had one or more developmental delays (P < .05), although their scores on the Simmons Behavior Checklist were similar. Among school-aged children, the scores of the homeless children were worse than those of the children with homes on the Children's Depression Inventory, Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, and the Child Behavior Checklist, but only the difference on the Anxiety Scale approached statistical significance (P = .06). Both homeless children and poor children with homes generally had worse scores than most other comparison groups of children. Unless action is taken to improve the lot of all these children, it is likely that many will continue to have significant problems that will seriously hamper their ability to function.

Children's Depression Inventory: Reliability Over Repeated Administrations

1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. Finch Jr. ◽  
Conway F. Saylor ◽  
Garry L. Edwards ◽  
Julia A. McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Children's Depression Inventory ◽  
Children’S Depression Inventory ◽  
Children’S Depression ◽  
Repeated Administrations

scholarly journals Sintomas depressivos em adolescentes em situação de vulnerabilidade social

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-227
Author(s):  
Diego Grasel Barbosa ◽  
Rubian Diego Andrade ◽  
Clarissa Stefani Teixeira ◽  
Manoel Gomes Filho Neto ◽  
Érico Pereira Gomes Felden
Keyword(s):  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Children's Depression Inventory ◽  
Children’S Depression Inventory ◽  
Children’S Depression

Resumo Objetivo Identificar os principais indicadores de depressão de amostra de adolescentes em vulnerabilidade social e associar com variáveis sociodemográficas e comportamentais. Método: A amostra foi composta por 135 adolescentes em vulnerabilidade social de Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. Indicadores de depressão foram investigados por meio do Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI). Para comparação entre os sexos, utilizou-se o teste U de Mann-Whitney. Com o objetivo de identificar os fatores de agrupamento entre os sintomas depressivos, recorreu-se à análise fatorial com rotação ortogonal varimax normalized. Além disso, a Regressão de Poisson foi utilizada no sentido de identificar as razões de prevalências, tendo como variável desfecho o tercil superior da pontuação do CDI. Resultados: Os indicadores “perda ou ganho de peso”, “baixa autoestima” e “fadiga” apresentaram maior poder explicativo dos escores do CDI. Os meninos atingiram maior pontuação média (24,9 pontos). Os índices do CDI foram altos independentemente de questões sociodemográficas, como etnia, e comportamentais, tempo em frente à televisão e ao computador ou videogame. Conclusão: Foram observadas altas prevalências de sintomatologia depressiva nos adolescentes em situação de vulnerabilidade social, com destaque para os meninos, que possuíram 2,24 vezes maior probabilidade de apresentar pontuação elevada no CDI em comparação às meninas.

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