Table 2.

CES-D Items Means and Item-Corrected-Total Correlations (ITC) by Race

	Means:			ITCs:
	Whites	Blacks	p-value	Whites	Blacks
CES-D 1.. was bothered by things …	0.70	0.74		0.52	0.48
CES-D 2.. had a poor appetite …	0.47	0.63	0.01	0.41	0.34
CES-D 3.. could not shake off the blues	0.57	0.63		0.66	0.66
CES-D 4.. felt as good as other people	0.92	0.92		0.42	0.25
CES-D 5.. trouble keeping my mind on what I was doing …	1.03	0.86	0.02	0.43	0.55
CES-D 6.. felt depressed	0.88	0.94		0.76	0.76
CES-D 7.. everything was an effort …	1.29	1.56	0.01	0.22	0.04
CES-D 8.. felt hopeful about the future …	0.94	0.90		0.31	0.16
CES-D 9.. thought life a failure	0.45	0.53		0.66	0.63
CES-D 10.. felt fearful	0.61	0.57		0.57	0.53
CES-D 11.. sleep was restless …	1.36	1.02	0.01	0.32	0.34
CES-D 12.. was happy …	0.77	0.87		0.59	0.57
CES-D 13.. talked less than usual …	0.73	0.83		0.44	0.31
CES-D 14.. felt lonely …	0.87	0.88		0.68	0.72
CES-D 15.. people were unfriendly …	0.52	0.50		0.46	0.33
CES-D 16.. enjoyed life …	0.89	0.76	0.02	0.58	0.42
CES-D 17.. had crying spells …	0.96	1.05		0.61	0.61
CES-D 18.. felt sad …	1.03	1.03		0.76	0.79
CES-D 19.. felt people disliked me …	0.49	0.47		0.61	0.55
CES-D 20.. couldnot get going …	0.92	0.79	0.04	0.60	0.55
	Whites:			Blacks:
Cronbach’s Alpha (20 items):	0.898			0.873
Cronbach’s Alpha (19 items minus item 7):	0.903			0.884