Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the Short Beck Depression Inventory with Iranian Psychiatric Outpatients

Table 4

Factor loadings of BDI-13 in Iranian psychiatric outpatients ().

Beck Depression Short Inventory (BDI-13) items	1	2	3
(1) Depressed mood/sadness	.727	.317
(2) Pessimism	.816		.191
(3) Sense of failure	.580	.282	.380
(4) Lack of satisfaction/dissatisfaction	.660	.284	.099
(5) Guilty feelings	.721	.141	.239
(6) Self-hate/self-dislike	.760	.229	.232
(7) Self-punitive wishes/self-harm	.526		.561
(8) Social withdrawal	.394		.737
(9) Indecisiveness		.547	.637
(10) Distorted body image/self-image	.145	.212	.805
(11) Work inhibition/work difficulty	.141	.878	.010
(12) Fatigability	.184	.692	.055
(13) Loss of appetite	.227	.407	.168
Eigenvalue	4.97	1.85	1.30
% of variance	38.26	14.24	10.02
% of total variance	62.53
Component transformation matrix
(1) Affective (items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7)	.78	.36	.50
(2) Somatic (items 11, 12, and 13)		.93
(3) Cognitive/Loss of Functioning (items 8, 9, and 10)		.00	.84