Comparative psychometric analyses of the SCL-90-R and its short versions in patients with affective disorders

BMC Psychiatry

Table 5 Convergent validity: (Product–moment-Correlations) between the scales of the SCL-90-R, BSI, SCL-27, BSI-18, SCL-14 and SCL-K-9 and the total score of the Beck-Depression-Inventory (BDI, Hautzinger et al., 1995) in patients with affective disorders

SCL-90-R		BSI		SCL-27		BSI-18		SCL-14		SCL-K-9
Scale	r	Scale	r	Scale	r	Scale	r	Scale	r	Scale	r
SOMA	0.51**	SOMA	0.50**	VEG	0.50**	SOMA	0.49**	SOMA	0.41**
OCD	0.68**	OCD	0.66**	DYS	0.61**
INT	0.65**	INT	0,64**	SOP	0.60**
DEPR	0.80**	DEPR	0.77**	DEP	0.71**	DEPR	0.77**	DEPR	0.79**	itemD	0.51**
ANX	0.61**	ANX	0.58**			ANX	0.59**
HOST	0.49**	HOST	0.49**
PHOB	0.51**	PHOB	0.52**	AGO	0.52**			PHOB	0.41**
PARA	0.52**	PARA	0.52**	MIS	0.50**
PSYC	0.65**	PSYC	0.66**
GSI	0.77**	GSI	0.77**	GSI	0.75**	GSI	0.74**	GSI	0.74**	GSI	0.69**

Notes: Abbreviations of the SCL-90-R, BSI and BSI-18: SOMA = Somatization; OCD = obsessive-compulsive; INT = interpersonal sensitivity; DEPR = Depression; ANX = Anxiety; HOST = Hostility; PHOB = Phobic Anxiety; PARA = Paranoid Ideation; PSYC = Psychoticism; GSI = Global Severity Index; Abbreviations of the SCL-27: DEP = Depressive symptoms; DYS = Dysthymic symptoms; VEG = Vegetative symptoms; AGO = Agoraphobic symptoms; SOP = Symptoms of social phobia; MIS = Symptoms of mistrust; GSI = Global Severity Index; Abbreviations of the SCL-14: DEP = Depression; PHO = Phobic Anxiety; SOM = Somatization; GSI = Global Severity Index; Abbreviations of the SCL-K-9: GSI = Global Severity Index. ** Correlations are significant at p < 0.01 (2-tailed). 2601 ≤ N ≤ 2689.

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