期刊名称：International Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2163-1948
电子版ISSN：2163-1956
出版年度：2014
卷号：4
期号：6
页码：201-207
DOI：10.5923/j.ijpbs.20140406.03
语种：English
出版社：Scientific & Academic Publishing Co.
摘要：The goal of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale (KADS- 11-item version) in Persian population. After translation and back translation of KADS and conducting a pilot evaluation, two major studies were conducted to answer four main psychometric questions. In the study 1, applying KADS-11 in 277 university students revealed a KADS-11 reliability of 0.88 that KADS-11 can determine two major factors including a Core Depressive Symptomatic factor and a Suicidal-Physical factor. Both factors have satisfactory internal consistency as well as all 11 items of KADS. Its reliability was 0.79 in pilot study and 0.88 in study 1. Using Zung Self-Rating Depressive Scale to obtain convergent validity, the study 1 revealed that both scales have high correlations in all parts. In the second study, 63 depressed patients from Shahid Dr. Lavasani Hospital and 40 normal individuals were selected to examine whether KADS has enough power to discriminate depressed individuals from non-depressed individuals. The analysis of data showed that the scale has enough power to differentiate depressed groups from non-depressed groups t (101) = 3.316, P <0.001. This sensitivity was proved for both factors, which extracted from varimax rotation in study 1.
