The Children's Depression Inventory

question 38

Multiple Choice

The Children's Depression Inventory

• A)is a structured interview employed to obtain a DSM diagnosis.
• B)is probably the most commonly employed self-report measure of depression in youngsters.
• C)is used to primarily assess the affective component of depression.
• D)lacks substantial research evidence for its usefulness.

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Definitions:

Chi-square Statistic

A statistical measure used to evaluate the differences between observed and expected frequencies in one or more categories of a contingency table.

Expected Frequencies

The predicted counts of occurrences across different categories that one would expect if a hypothesis were true.

Chi-square Statistic

A measure used in statistics to evaluate the differences between observed and expected frequencies in categorical variables.

Expected Frequencies

In statistics, the numbers of observations or outcomes that one would expect to occur in each category if the null hypothesis were true.