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To investigate the common and specific dimensions of anxiety and depression in adolescents, the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI; Beck, A. T., & Steer, R. A. Manual for the Beck Anxiety Inventory. San Antonio, TX: Psychological Corporation 1993a) and Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck, A. T., Steer, R. A., & Brown, G. K. Manual for Beck Depression Inventory (2nd Ed.). San Antonio, TX: Psychological Corporation 1996) were administered to 840 adolescent (13–17 years old) outpatients who were diagnosed with various types of psychiatric disorders. A Schmid-Leiman transformation was used with the iterated-principal-factor pattern matrix of the BAI and the BDI-II loadings. The amounts of orthogonalized common variance that were explained by the one second-order (56%), one first-order depression (22%), and two first-order anxiety (22%) dimensions were comparable to those previously reported for adult psychiatric outpatients. The results were discussed as supporting the construct of negative affectivity that is proposed in L. A. Clark and Watson’s (1991) tripartite model of anxiety and depression.
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A series of statistical tests to determine whether separate factor analyses should be reported with respect to sex was conducted, and the factor patterns for the boys and girls were comparable. For example, the coefficients of congruence between the first, second, and third consecutively extracted factors representing the same dimensions for each sex were, respectively, .98, .95 and .93. Therefore, only the combined factor analysis for both sexes is reported.
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Steer, R.A., Clark, D.A., Kumar, G. et al. Common and Specific Dimensions of Self-Reported Anxiety and Depression in Adolescent Outpatients. J Psychopathol Behav Assess 30, 163–170 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-007-9060-2
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