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Screening for depressive symptoms in adolescents at school: New validity evidences on the short form of the Reynolds Depression Scale.
2017
The main purpose of the present study was to assess the depressive symptomatology and to gather new validity evidences of the Reynolds Depression Scale-Short form (RADS-SF) in a representative sample of youths. The sample consisted of 2914 adolescents with a mean age of 15.85 years (SD = 1.68). We calculated the descriptive statistics and internal consistency of the RADS-SF scores. Also, confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) at the item level and successive multigroup CFAs to test measurement invariance, were conducted. Latent mean differences across gender and educational level groups were estimated, and finally, we studied the sources of validity evidences with other external variables. The…
Ideación suicida en una muestra representativa de adolescentes españoles
2018
Resumen Introduccion El suicidio es un problema sociosanitario de primer orden. El proposito de este estudio fue analizar la ideacion suicida en una muestra representativa de adolescentes espanoles. Concretamente, se examino las tasas de prevalencia, se valido la Escala Paykel de Ideacion Suicida (Paykel Suicide Scale, PSS) y se analizo el ajuste socioemocional de aquellos adolescentes con ideacion suicida. Material y metodos La muestra la formaron 1.664 participantes (M = 16,12 anos; DT = 1,36; rango 14-19 anos) seleccionados mediante muestreo estratificado por conglomerados. Los instrumentos empleados fueron la PSS, el Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, el Personal Wellbeing Index–…