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The Assessment of Depression in Children

Are We Assessing Depression or the Broad-Band Construct of Negative Affectivity?

KEVIN D. STARK, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas, and interim director of the Doctoral Program in School Psychology. Research interests include the evaluation of a cognitive--behavioral model of childhood depression, development and evaluation of a treatment program for childhood depression, and cognitive--behavioral interventions for children and their families. Address: Kevin D. Stark, PhD, University of Texas, Department of Educational Psychology, EDB 504, Austin, TX 78712.

NADINE J. KASLOW

NADINE J. KASLOW, PhD, is an associate professor at the Emory University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Grady Memorial Hospital. Research interests include childhood depression, youth suicide, and family interventions.

JEFF LAURENT

JEFF LAURENT, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois. Research interests include anxiety disorders during childhood, issues in intellectual assessment, and cognitive models of child psychopathology.

Evaluation of the overlap in symptomatology of depressed, anxious, and depressed and anxious children is described. Fifty-nine children from grades 4 through 7, including 14 who received a DSM-III-R diagnosis of a depressive disorder, 11 with a diagnosis of an anxiety disorder, 16 with a comorbid depressive and anxiety disorder, and 18 nondisturbed controls, completed the Children's Depression Inventory, Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, Hopelessness Scale for Children, and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory. Diagnoses were determined by the children's responses to a well-respected semi-structured clinical interview. Results indicated that all three diagnostic groups differed significantly from the non-disturbed controls across all of the self-report paper-and-pencil measures. However, in general, the three diagnostic groups could not be differentiated based on their responses to these measures. Implications for the negative affectivity hypothesis and future research are discussed.

Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 1, No. 3, 149-154 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/106342669300100302


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