BDI-2 Summary And Analysis

The BDI-II contains a substantial revision of the original and revised BDI-1A (Beck et al., 1996). The BDI-II omits signs associated with weight loss, body image, hypochondria, and working difficulty in order for the assessment of symptoms to comply with the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-IV criteria (APA, 1994)). For BDI-II, worthlessness, loss of energy, agitation, and concentration difficulty were added as new symptoms of depression. The 21 items that comprise BDI-II are categorized into cognitive, affective, somatic, and vegetative symptoms of depression. The 21 depression symptoms that comprise BDI-II are sadness, pessimism, past failure, loss of pleasure, guilt feelings, punishment feelings, self-dislike, self-criticalness, suicidal