Gender differential item functioning effects on various item response formats of the CES-D

The present study investigated potentially biased scale items on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scale in a sample of 600 community-dwelling adults between the ages of 17 and 87 years. The mean age was 46 years for males (N=310) and 42 years for females (N=290). The 20-ite...

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Main Author: Gelin, Michaela Nicole
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11529