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      BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY (BDI-II) ITEMS CHARACTERISTICS AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF NINETEEN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES

      Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal
      Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd

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          An Arabic version of the second edition of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) in its complete form was developed by Ghareeb (2000). The BDI-II was administered to 18 Islamic groups and the English version of the BDI-II (Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) was administered to an additional Pakistani group. Co-efficient alphas were computed for samples of male and female undergraduates recruited from 19 Islamic countries: Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Pakistan ( n=600, 270, 479, 841, 943, 780, 781, 356, 230, 360, 333, 590, 735, 275, 291, 298, 300, 706 and 532 respectively). The corrected item-total scale correlations of the BDI-II ranged between .21 and 89, the inventory seems viable in the Arabic context. Its use in cross-cultural studies would be suitable.

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          Psychometric properties of the beck depression inventory-II with university students in Bahrain.

          The Arabic version of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) was administered to 200 students enrolled at the University of Bahrain. Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic techniques, I obtained reasonable validity and reliability data for the BDI-II. Three oblique factors provided the most parsimonious and meaningful solution for students' responses. Findings of this study generally provide strong support for the psychometric soundness of the BDI-II as a measure of depression in college student populations even in Arabic culture, which differs dramatically from Western culture in both values and taboos.
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            Journal
            Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal
            soc behav pers
            Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd
            0301-2212
            January 01 2005
            January 01 2005
            : 33
            : 7
            : 675-684
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            10.2224/sbp.2005.33.7.675
            abc58c04-4fe2-4086-9662-a5c934c5aa76
            © 2005
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