| Abstract: | 93 adult women completed a depression scale and a checklist on stressful life events and were interviewed 1 wk later in their homes. With the interview as the criterion, the checklist assessed stressful life events with a sensitivity of .89 and a specificity of .57. The corresponding figures for the assessment of chronic difficulties were .86 and .55. For the total sample, sensitivity and specificity were .88 and .67 for life events and .75 and .75 for chronic difficulties. Interview and checklist techniques were highly correlated when a severe life event had not occurred (negative predictive value), but events marked on the checklist had a 20–27% correspondence to events related in the interview (positive predictive value). (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
