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Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2009 Sep 24;71(9):951–957. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181b9b2d7

Table 3.

Correlations among the BDI Total Score, BDI Cognitive Score, BFI-N, Concurrent & Retrospective Symptom Measures

	Concurrent	Retrospective
BDI Total	.31^**	.39^**
BDI Cognitive	.27^**	.36^**
BFI-Neuroticism	.19^*	.20^*

Note. BDI Cognitive refers to items 1–14 of the Beck Depression Inventory; BFI-N = Neuroticism scale of the Big Five Inventory. All values reflect the removal of depression symptoms from the symptom checklists. Concurrent and retrospective symptoms were correlated, r = .58, p < .001.

p < .05;

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p < .01