Can Gender and Age Impact on Response Pattern of Depressive Symptoms Among College Students? A Differential Item Functioning Analysis

Can Gender and Age Impact on Response Pattern of Depressive Symptoms Among College Students? A Differential Item Functioning Analysis

Background: Self-reported depressive complaints among college students might indicate different degrees of severity of depressive states. Through the framework of item response theory, we aim to describe the pattern of responses to items of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), in terms of endo...

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Main Authors: Antonio Reis de Sá Junior, Graziela Liebel, Arthur Guerra de Andrade, Laura Helena Andrade, Clarice Gorenstein, Yuan-Pang Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
Subjects:
depression
gender
age
college students
Beck Depression Inventory
item response theory
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00050/full

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