TY - JOUR
T1 - The general health questionnaire
T2 - Reliability and validity for Australian youth
AU - Winefield, Helen R.
AU - Goldney, Robert D.
AU - Winefield, Anthony H.
AU - Tiggemann, Marika
PY - 1989/3/1
Y1 - 1989/3/1
N2 - General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) results are given for a large (N = 1013) sample of South Australian young people (average age 19.6 years), to compare the usefulness of the 12-, 28-, and 30-item forms of the GHQ. Internal reliabilities are generally adequate and the Likert scoring method produces significant correlations with psychological measures such as self-esteem. the case-prevalence rate using the binary scoring method was comparable with other studies, but misclassification rates were unacceptably high when DSM-Ill Axis I diagnosis was used as the criterion for the presence of any psychiatric disorder.
AB - General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) results are given for a large (N = 1013) sample of South Australian young people (average age 19.6 years), to compare the usefulness of the 12-, 28-, and 30-item forms of the GHQ. Internal reliabilities are generally adequate and the Likert scoring method produces significant correlations with psychological measures such as self-esteem. the case-prevalence rate using the binary scoring method was comparable with other studies, but misclassification rates were unacceptably high when DSM-Ill Axis I diagnosis was used as the criterion for the presence of any psychiatric disorder.
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U2 - 10.3109/00048678909062592
DO - 10.3109/00048678909062592
M3 - Article
C2 - 2930415
AN - SCOPUS:0024536638
SN - 0004-8674
VL - 23
SP - 53
EP - 58
JO - Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
JF - Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
IS - 1
ER -