Table 2.

Sample Mean, Item-to-Total Correlations, and Response Distributions for AAMHSL Participants (n = 683).

CES-D item	Mean (SD)	Item–total correlation	Response categories (%)
			Rarely	Some of the time	Occasionally	Most of the time
I felt that I was just as good as other peoplea	0.86 (0.97)	0.27	7.1	19.3	26.2	47.4
I had trouble keeping my mind on what I was doing	1.12 (0.93)	0.45	31.2	32.2	29.7	6.8
I felt depressed	0.80 (0.92)	0.68	49.2	29.0	17.0	5.8
I felt that everything I did was an effort	1.66 (1.02)	0.04	16.4	25.7	33.6	24.3
My sleep was restless	1.14 (0.97)	0.42	31.5	31.8	27.6	9.2
I was happya	0.91 (0.90)	0.46	6.4	16.9	37.7	38.9
People were unfriendly	1.09 (0.93)	0.49	30.6	38.4	22.7	8.3
I enjoyed lifea	0.71 (0.90)	0.39	5.4	14.2	26.6	53.8
I had crying spells	0.54 (0.89)	0.61	69.0	12.9	13.5	4.6
I felt that people disliked me	0.86 (0.96)	0.55	46.8	27.9	18.3	7.1
I could not get going	0.89 (0.92)	0.59	42.1	33.2	18.4	6.4
I felt hopeful about the futurea	0.85 (1.00)	0.22	10.1	13.2	27.5	49.0

Note. AAMHSL = African American Men’s Health and Social Life study; CES-D = Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale.

^aReverse coded to reflect higher depressive symptomatology.