Table 2.
Scale statistics, standardized cut scores, and estimates of reliability and validity for CES-D scales
| 20-item Radloff |
16-item Lawton |
11-item Kohout |
10-item Andresen |
10-item Kohout |
10-item Cole |
9-item Santor |
8-item Melchoir |
8-item Turvey |
5-item Bohannon |
5-item Lewisohn |
5-item Shrout |
4-item Melchoir |
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| Scale statistics | |||||||||||||
| Mean | 7.19 | 5.49 | 4.41 | 4.85 | 4.08 | 3.60 | 3.83 | 2.54 | 3.63 | 2.10 | 2.24 | 1.80 | 1.29 |
| St. Dev. | 7.52 | 5.97 | 4.76 | 4.94 | 4.49 | 3.97 | 4.25 | 2.88 | 3.89 | 2.38 | 2.47 | 2.21 | 1.80 |
| Median | 4.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.50 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 2.50 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.50 |
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| Standardized cut scores | |||||||||||||
| Score | 16 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
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| Reliability estimates | |||||||||||||
| Alpha | .87 | .84 | .81 | .82 | .81 | .75 | .81 | .68 | .77 | .60 | .65 | .61 | .65 |
| Inter-item r | .25 | .25 | .28 | .31 | .30 | .23 | .32 | .21 | .30 | .23 | .27 | .24 | .31 |
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| Validity estimates | |||||||||||||
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r with 20-item CES-D |
------ | .98 | .96 | .96 | .96 | .96 | .95 | .94 | .94 | .85 | .84 | .88 | .82 |
r = correlation coefficient