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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 17.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2009 May;66(5):499–507. doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.27

Table 3.

Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) Total Score and Factor Components

Variable Total Scale
Mean (SD)		 Mean response
to all items on
scale (SD)		 Mean (SD)
% of
Total BDI
Total BDI Score 10.4 (8.0) .50 (.38) 100%
Cognitive/affective symptoms* 3.0 (4.1) .30 (.41) 19.7 (20)
Somatic/affective symptoms* 6.7 (4.3) .75 (.48) 72.5 (22)
Appetitive symptoms* 0.74 (1.2) .37 (.59) 7.8 (14)
Cognitive/affective symptoms§ 4.5 (5.4) .35 (.41) 32.3 (24)
Somatic/affective symptoms§ 5.9 (3.6) .74 (.45) 67.7 (24)
*

Factors obtained from the three-factor principal components analysis (PCA)

§

Factors obtained from the two-factor principal components analysis (PCA)