Psychometric properties of the Attitudes Towards Body Figure Questionnaire in Mexican female students and patients with eating disorders

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 430-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Unikel Santoncini ◽  
Francisco Juárez García ◽  
Gilda Gómez Peresmitré
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Female Students

Development of a Self-Report Measure of Depression-Proneness

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Zemore
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Depression Proneness ◽  
Severity Of Depression ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Report Measure

Two retrospective self-report measures of depression-proneness were constructed and their psychometric properties investigated. A sample of 75 female students, selected to provide a wide range of depression-proneness scores, completed the two depression-proneness self-reports along with a measure of current severity of depression. A second session (retest) was conducted 4 mo. later. Subjects were then rated for degree of depression-proneness by two or more close friends and family members. Test-retest and coefficient alpha estimates of reliability were sufficiently high to recommend both depression-proneness measures as research instruments. Both self-report measures correlated significantly; rs = .38 and .41 with friends' and families' ratings of depression-proneness, which provides evidence for the validity of the depression-proneness measures. Little or no evidence was found for the discriminant validity of these measures. The advantages of retrospective self-reports over alternative approaches for identifying depression-prone individuals are discussed.

Eating Disorders and Attitudes in Maltese and Italian Female Students

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Santonastaso ◽  
Dorothy Scicluna ◽  
Giovanni Colombo ◽  
Tatiana Zanetti ◽  
Angela Favaro
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Female Students
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