Subscales measuring symptoms of non-specific depression, anhedonia, and anxiety in the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale

Alan Tuohy; Cynthia McVey

doi:10.1111/j.2044-8260.2008.tb00463.x

Subscales measuring symptoms of non-specific depression, anhedonia, and anxiety in the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale

Alan Tuohy, Cynthia McVey

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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
Pages (from-to)	153-169
Number of pages	17
Journal	British Journal of Clinical Psychology
Volume	47
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8260.2008.tb00463.x
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2008

Keywords

anxiety
psychology
anhedonia
depression

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