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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Assess. 2021 Mar 18;33(4):369–374. doi: 10.1037/pas0000984

Table 1.

Performance of receiver operating curve Seasonal Beliefs Questionnaire total score and subscale combination score cutpoint criteria in predicting seasonal affective disorder, nonseasonal Major Depressive Disorder, or control status

Predictor Group Outcome Variable C-Statistic Cutpoint (≥) Sensitivity Specificity
SBQ total SAD vs. MDD 0.792 132 0.798 0.714
SBQ scale score SAD vs. MDD 0.813 808 0.930 0.571
SBQ total SAD vs. Control 0.962 121 0.939 0.873
SBQ scale score SAD vs. Control 0.976 1191 0.991 0.903
SBQ total MDD vs. Control 0.789 118 0.600 0.858
SBQ scale score MDD vs. Control 0.842 399 0.743 0.910
DAS total SAD vs. MDD 0.636

Note. SBQ = Seasonal Beliefs Questionnaire, DAS = Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale-Form A, SAD = Seasonal affective disorder patient status, MDD = nonseasonal Major Depressive Disorder patient status, Control = healthy control status, defined as no history of Major Depressive Disorder and global seasonality score in the normal range. Sensitivity (i.e., the proportion of true positives correctly classified) and specificity (i.e., the proportion of true negatives correctly classified) is at or above the cutpoint score on the predictor.