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The relationship of young adolescents' scores on the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) to subjective and objective indices of their social and cognitive functioning was examined. Subjects were 89 young adolescents (11–15 years old), their parents, and their social studies teachers. The correlations of adolescents' CDI scores with recent school grades, objective ratings of overt social behavior, and measures of adolescent social and cognitive competence as perceived by the adolescent, both parents, and the teacher were examined. CDI scores were significantly and negatively correlated with school grades, behavioral ratings of positive social communication, and adolescent, mother, father, and teacher perceptions of the adolescents' social and cognitive competence. The relationship of these findings to those of other CDI validity studies is discussed.
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This research was supported, in part, by the William T. Grant Foundation and the University of Georgia's Institute for Behavioral Research.
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Fauber, R., Forehand, R., Long, N. et al. The relationship of young adolescent Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) scores to their social and cognitive functioning. J Psychopathol Behav Assess 9, 161–172 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00960572
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