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The dimensions of the Dutch SCL-90: more than one, but how many?

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Within the Netherlands, there is a controversy regarding the question to what extent the SCL-90 can be considered an eight-dimensional self-assessment scale for psychopathology. Recently, the Dutch group who introduced the SCL-90 in the Netherlands again defended the premise that the SCL-90 has a structure of eight dimensions, on the basis of LISREL analyses on the SCL-90 scores of a large group of pain patients. In our study, also using the confirmatory factor analytic LISREL model, we investigated to what extent an eight-dimensional structure for the SCL-90 could be found in a large group of psychiatric patients (n = 1219). A parsimonious dimensional structure sufficiently explained our SCL-90 data. A reduced dimensionality was found for the Dutch SCL-90. The differences between the results of our study and the earlier findings of the Dutch promoters of the SCL-90 are mainly due to their accommodating application of the fit criteria. (Netherlands Journal of Psychology, 63, 29-35.)

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    Anton J. Hafkenscheid, Gerard H. Maassen & Arend T. Veeninga

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* Sinai Centre, Jewish Mental Health Services, Amersfoort

** Methodology and Statistics Capacity Group, Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht

Correspondence to: Anton Hafkenscheid, Sinai Centre, Jewish Mental Health Services, PO Box 66, NL 3800 AB Amersfoort. E-mail: a.hafkenscheid@sinaicentrum.nl

Submitted 8 December 2005; revision accepted 25 October 2006.

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Hafkenscheid, A.J., Maassen, G.H. & Veeninga, A.T. The dimensions of the Dutch SCL-90: more than one, but how many?. NEJP 63, 25–30 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03061059

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