Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the 12- Item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) among Blacks and Whites

Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the 12- Item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) among Blacks and Whites

Background: The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scale is one of the most widely used tools to measure depressive symptoms in epidemiological studies. Given the importance of cross-racial measurement equivalence of CES-D scale for research, we performed confirmatory factor analysi...

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Main Authors: Shervin Assari, Ehsan Moazen Zadeh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
Subjects:
African Americans
race
Reliability
blacks
depressive symptoms
Whites
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00178/full

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