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BERNARD LUBIN, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1965;12(1):57-62.

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The depression adjective checklists (DACL) were developed in order to fill the need for an instrument with which to measure transient depressive mood, feeling, or emotion. Instruments are available for the measurement of more chronic, enduring depression.^1,4 There are many occasions, however, when an economically administered, reliable and valid instrument for the measurement of transient depressive mood, feeling, or emotion is essential.

The need for such an instrument arose when designing an investigation of mood changes during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Therefore, the first itemanalysis was conducted on female criterion groups and the derived lists were crossvalidated on both sexes.

With the possibility of culturally-conditioned sex differences in self-report in mind, a separate item-analysis was conducted on male criterion groups and the derived lists were crossvalidated on both sexes.

Of the several forms of instruments that have been developed . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
INDIANAPOLIS

Associate Professor, Indiana University Medical School and Director, Division of Research & Training, Department of Mental Health.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Feb 19, 1964.

For item-analyses I and II, one pair of clinicians rated 60 patients, 26 males and 34 females, (r=0.78) with perfect agreement in 48 cases. Assuming chance probability of 0.25, this proportion of perfect agreements is significant at well below the 0.05 level (22 or more perfect agreements required for significance at the 0.05 level).

Another pair of clinicians rated 32 additional patients, 15 males and 17 females, (r=0.70) with perfect agreement in 22 cases. Again assuming chance probability of 0.25, this proportion of perfect agreement is significant at well below the 0.05 level (13 or more perfect agreements required for significance at the 0.05 level).

For ratings beyond those used in the item-analyses, the four point scale was reduced to two points by combining the "marked" and "severely" depressed gradations into a "depressed" group and by combining the "nondepressed" and "slightly" depressed gradations into a "nondepressed" group.

For both females and males, college students and community service organizations served as normals; patients were from an adult psychiatric clinic (65%), an acute intensive treatment hospital (25%), and the psychiatric ward of a general hospital (10%).

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