Abstract
There has been considerable research and clinical interest in the comorbidity of anxiety and depression in the post-partum period, and specifically in the possibility that the commonly used Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) incorporates an anxiety component. We hypothesized that the recommended version of factor analysis (Fabrigar, Wegener, MacCallum, & Strahan, 1999) would identify such covert dimensions more reliably than the commonly used principal components analysis with varimax rotation and eigenvalues greater than 1.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 153-169 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | British Journal of Clinical Psychology |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2008 |
Keywords
- anxiety
- psychology
- anhedonia
- depression