SADNESS HAS A PREFERENCE FOR BIRTHDAYS: A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON “BIRTHDAY BLUES” QUESTIONNAIRE AND CONSTRUCT DEVELOPMENT
“Birthday blues” is sometimes used in epidemiological studies to describe occasionally observed effect of higher suicide ratios around birthdays. It is also colloquially used to describe a general feeling of disappointment, anxiety, etc. due to another year passing by, low achievement, or not having the expectations regarding birthday c...
By Savina Šmit
THE FACTOR STRUCTURE OF THE PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE (PHQ-9) IN A NON-CLINICAL SAMPLE
The Patient Health Questionnaire – PHQ-9 is a well known self-report measure of nine depression symptoms according to DSM-IV/DSM-V criteria. As the PHQ-9 is not yet validated in most of former Yugoslavian countries, the goal of this research was to determine its factor structure and psychometric properties on a large non-clinical BCS language...
By Siniša Subotić, Ivan Knežević, Strahinja Dimitrijević, Dalibor Miholjčić, Savina Šmit, Mirjana Karać, Jelena Mijatović