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Is the Hebrew version of the Depression Adjective Check List reliable and valid for assessing depressive mood in elderly Israelis?
Is the Hebrew version of the Depression Adjective Check List reliable and valid for assessing depressive mood in elderly Israelis?
The state form of the Depression Adjective Check List is a reliable and valid tool for assessing depressive mood in elderly Israelis.
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Supports Hebrew DACL for depressive mood assessment in elderly Israelis; extends 1981 version but leaves prospective validation open.
To establish the psychometric properties of the state form of the Depression Adjective Check List (DACL) with elderly Israeli, a 1981 Hebrew version of the DACL by Lomranz, Lubin, Eyal, and Medini, along with the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale and Cantril's Self-anchoring Striving Scale, were administered to 86 independently functioning elderly persons (35 men and 51 women) living in a home for the aged. Reliability estimates (alphas and test-retest) were moderate to high; validity estimates (concurrent and construct) were again moderate to high. It was concluded that the state form of the Depression Adjective Check List is suitable for use with elderly Israeli.
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Lomranz et al. (1991) studied this question.
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