Table 4.

Social functioning measures

Abbreviation	Source	Respondent	Social domains	Nitems	NDepStudiesa	Psychometrics
						α	rxx’
SF-36	Ware and Sherbourne (1992)	Patient	General	2	>200	.79	.44
DAS	Spanier (1976)	Patient	Relationships	32	41	.81
IIP	Horowitz et al. (1988)	Patient	Relationships	127	31	.93	.80
SDS	Sheehan et al. (1996)	Patient	General	3	29	.89	.73
SASS	Bosc Dubini and Polin (1997)	Patient	Multiple	21	24	.81
SAS-SR	Weissman and Bothwell (1976)	Patient	Multiple	42	23	.74	.80
DID	Weissman and Bothwell (2004)	Patient	Multiple	6	16	.89	.82
WSAS	Marks (1986)	Patient	Leisure and Relationships	5	14	.81	.73
SOFAS	Goldman, Skodol, and Lave (1992)	Clinician	General	1	11	.89
SIS	Clare and Cairns (1978)	Clinician	Multiple	13	3		.90
IPS	Davidson et al. (1989)	Clinician	Sensitivity	6	2
LFQ*	Davidson et al. (1989)	Patient	General	14	2	.84	.77
SFQ	Tyrer (1990)	Patient	Multiple	8	2
SAS-II	Schooler et al. (1979)	Clinician	Multiple	52	1

Abbreviations: SF-36: Short-Form Health Survey, DAS: Dyadic Adjustment Scale, IIP: Inventory of Interpersonal Problems, SDS: Sheehan Disability Scale, SASS: Social Adaptation Self-evaluation Scale, SAS-SR: Social Adjustment Scale-Self-Report; DID, Diagnostic Inventory for Depression, WSAS, Work and Social Adjustment Scale, SOFAS: Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale for the DSM-IV, SIS: Social Interview Schedule, IPS: Interpersonal Sensitivity Scale, LFQ: Life Functioning Questionnaire,SFQ: Social Functioning Questionnaire, and the SAS-II, Social functioning measures included the Social Adjustment Scale II. Notes: *LFQ contains mostly social functioning items but also contains items relevant to occupational functioning. The psychometrics includes measures of internal consistency (α) and test–retest reliability (r_xx’).

^aThese numbers represent the frequency each measure was used in depression research as of 8/31/2008 in PubMed.