Ghassemzadeh Habibollah, Mojtabai Ramin, Karamghadiri Narges, Ebrahimkhani Narges
Department of Psychiatry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2006 Mar;52(2):127-37. doi: 10.1177/0020764006062095.
To examine the psychometric properties of a Persian-language version of Hollon and Kendall's (1980) Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (ATQ-Persian)--a measure of negative automatic thoughts in depression.
In a sample of 125 student volunteers from two Iranian universities we assessed the internal consistency and test-retest reliability of ATQ-Persian, and examined its concurrent validity against the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck et al., 1996). We also examined the factor structure of the test through comparing the fit of various proposed factor-analytic models to the data using confirmatory factor analysis.
ATQ-Persian had excellent internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.96), test-retest reliability (r = 0.84) and correlation with the Beck Depression Inventory (r = 0.77). Using a receiver operating characteristics curve, a score of 53 on ATQ-Persian was associated with a sensitivity of 89% and a specificity of 78% for detecting moderate to severe depression defined through Beck Depression Inventory. None of the proposed factorial models fitted the data well. However, models with correlated factors generally provided better fit than models with orthogonal factors, suggesting that the latent factors underlying ATQ-Persian are highly correlated.
These data support the reliability and validity of ATQ-Persian as a measure of negative automatic thoughts in depression.
检验霍伦和肯德尔（1980年）的《自动思维问卷》波斯语版本（ATQ-波斯语版）的心理测量特性——一种用于测量抑郁症中消极自动思维的工具。
在来自两所伊朗大学的125名学生志愿者样本中，我们评估了ATQ-波斯语版的内部一致性和重测信度，并检验了其与贝克抑郁量表（贝克等人，1996年）的同时效度。我们还通过使用验证性因素分析比较各种提出的因素分析模型与数据的拟合度，来检验该测试的因素结构。
ATQ-波斯语版具有出色的内部一致性（克朗巴哈系数α = 0.96）、重测信度（r = 0.84）以及与贝克抑郁量表的相关性（r = 0.77）。使用受试者工作特征曲线，ATQ-波斯语版得分为53分时，对于通过贝克抑郁量表定义的中度至重度抑郁症，其敏感性为89%，特异性为78%。所提出的因素模型均不能很好地拟合数据。然而，具有相关因素的模型通常比具有正交因素的模型拟合得更好，这表明ATQ-波斯语版潜在的因素高度相关。
这些数据支持了ATQ-波斯语版作为抑郁症中消极自动思维测量工具的信度和效度。
