The proportion of non-depressed subjects in a study sample strongly affects the results of psychometric analyses of depression symptoms.

BACKGROUND:Recent studies have uncovered a peculiar finding: that the strength and dimensionality of depression symptoms' inter-relationships vary systematically across study samples with different average levels of depression severity. Our aim was to examine whether this phenomenon is driven b...

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Main Authors: Simon Foster, Meichun Mohler-Kuo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235272