School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Psychiatry Res. 2010 May 15;177(1-2):120-3. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.02.003. Epub 2010 Mar 6.
The Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale (CES-D) is one of the five most frequently used measures of depressive experiences. Previous research has suggested that the scale may consist of two separate factors of happiness and depression, respectively. However, recent methodological research has demonstrated that standard factor analysis cannot be used in this situation to demonstrate such factors are substantive. The substantive factor structure of the CES-D was therefore tested with two samples of younger (N=8857; age range 27-35) and older (N=6125; age range 64-65) people. Using a recent correction to CFA, we demonstrate that a two factor structure arises through purely artifactual reasons, and that the CES-D actually has only one substantive factor, providing evidence for a single continuum ranging from happiness to depression.
流行病学研究中心抑郁量表（CES-D）是最常使用的五种评估抑郁体验的量表之一。先前的研究表明，该量表可能分别由幸福感和抑郁感两个单独的因素构成。然而，最近的方法学研究表明，在这种情况下，不能使用标准因子分析来证明这些因素是实质性的。因此，使用两个年龄较小（N=8857；年龄范围为 27-35 岁）和年龄较大（N=6125；年龄范围为 64-65 岁）的样本对 CES-D 的实质性因子结构进行了测试。使用最近对 CFA 的修正，我们证明了两因素结构的出现纯粹是人为的原因，并且 CES-D 实际上只有一个实质性因素，为从幸福感到抑郁感的单一连续体提供了证据。
