Leonard R. Derogatis

Clinical Characteristics of Women With a History of Childhood Abuse

Childhood physical or sexual abuse is associated with adult health problems including physical symptoms, psychological problems, and substance abuse; for many variables, this as...

The Brief Symptom Inventory: an introductory report

Synopsis This is an introductory report for the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), a brief psychological self-report symptom scale. The BSI was developed from its longer parent inst...

The Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL): A self-report symptom inventory

This report describes the historical evolution, development, rationale and validation of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL), a self-report symptom inventory. The HSCL is compr...

The SCL-90 and the MMPI: A Step in the Validation of a New Self-Report Scale

Summary The present investigation was intended principally as a concurrent validation study for a new self-report symptom inventory: the SCL-90. A sample of 209 ‘symptomatic vol...

Confirmation of the dimensional structure of the scl-90: A study in construct validation

The dimensional structure of the SCL-90, a multidimensional self-report symptom inventory, was subjected to a confirmatory empirical test with a sample of 1,002 psychiatric outp...

Factorial invariance across gender for the primary symptom dimensions of the SCL‐90

The present study was focused on an evaluation of factorial invariance across gender for the primary symptom dimensions of the SCL‐90 ‐ a multidimensional self‐report symptom in...

Social class, psychological disorder, and the nature of the psychopathologic indicator.

Factorial Invariance of Symptom Dimensions in Anxious and Depressive Neuroses

Five primary neurotic-symptom dimensions were examined regarding dimensional constancy across the nosological categories of anxiety states and depressive neuroses. Samples were ...