Connell D K, Meyer R G
Department of Psychology, University of Louisville, Kentucky 40292.
Adolescence. 1991 Spring;26(101):113-9.
Popular self-report inventories of depression, hopelessness, social desirability, and anxiety, along with the Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire, were completed by 150 college students. Tanaka-Matsumi and Kameoka (1986) had questioned the use of popular depression instruments in the assessment of this population, due to the high correlation between depression, anxiety, and social desirability scales. The present experiment also found significant correlations between the self-report instruments and suicidal behaviors. These findings may be due to the fact that anxiety and depression are often found together in clinical settings, and that the content of depression and anxiety scales is not specific to those constructs.
150名大学生完成了关于抑郁、绝望、社会期望和焦虑的常用自我报告量表，以及自杀行为问卷。田中松美和龟冈（1986）曾质疑在对这一人群进行评估时使用常用抑郁量表的做法，因为抑郁、焦虑和社会期望量表之间存在高度相关性。本实验还发现自我报告量表与自杀行为之间存在显著相关性。这些发现可能是由于在临床环境中焦虑和抑郁常常同时出现，以及抑郁和焦虑量表的内容并非特定于这些构念。
