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Depression scale for children and adolescents - sdd: evaluation of psychometric properties

Objective: To examine the psychometric properties of the Depression Scale for Children and Adolescents (SDD). Method: An 26-item questionnaire SDD was first administered to Croatian schoolchildren (N=2225) and children referred to a pediatric clinic for psychological examination (N=137). In the second part of this study the SDD and a number of personality and psychopathology questionnaires were administered to find out relations with other psychological constructs (N=329). Results: Factor analysis yielded two factors that have also been found in other researches: cognitive symptoms and emotional symptoms of depression. The reliability (internal consistency) of SDD was satisfactory ( =0.895). Furthermore, support was obtained for the validity of the SDD: the scale correlated in a theoretically meaningful way with the associated psychological construct, as well as with the results on the measures of some other factors related to depression. Conclusion: The SDD show to be reliable and valid self-report measure for screening depressive symptoms in children and adolescents.

depression scale; children; adolescents

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