Relationship between Item Responses of Negative Affect Items and the Distribution of the Sum of the Item Scores in the General Population.

Relationship between Item Responses of Negative Affect Items and the Distribution of the Sum of the Item Scores in the General Population.

BACKGROUND:Several studies have shown that total depressive symptom scores in the general population approximate an exponential pattern, except for the lower end of the distribution. The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) consists of 20 items, each of which may take on four sc...

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Main Authors: Shinichiro Tomitaka, Yohei Kawasaki, Kazuki Ide, Maiko Akutagawa, Hiroshi Yamada, Toshiaki A Furukawa, Yutaka Ono
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5091904?pdf=render

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