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1 kwi 2012 · PDF | Major depression is a mood disorder characterized by a sense of inadequacy, despondency, decreased activity, pessimism, anhedonia and sadness... | Find, read and cite all the research...
1 kwi 2016 · Given the widespread adoption of operational definition (or operationalization) and the scarcity with which it is examined in practice, we believe that psychological researchers should establish a best-practices approach to the use of operational definitions.
For example, in a randomized trial of depression medication, the theoretical construct of the disease being treated is ‘depression’, but the operational definition may be, for example, score of 20 or more on the Beck Depression Inventory or answering ‘yes’ to the question ‘are you depressed’.
18 mar 2019 · The current paper critically evaluates Beck and Bredemeier’s (2016) Unified Model of Depression (UMD) and explores some of the wider issues it raises about explanations of depression.
9 lut 2021 · This discussion serves to highlight three areas of conceptual difficulty and their consequences for understanding the mental health of children with NDD that we then consider in the article: (1) how to define mental health problems, (2) how to define and assess mental health problems and mental health, i.e., wellbeing as separate constructs ...
9 sie 2014 · use of operational definitions should involve best practices related to three conceptual tasks: (a) clarificationy in which researchers reflect on and clarify their potential operationalizations, (b) specification , in which researchers specify and take account of the difference between
26 lut 2021 · To determine whether clinical variables, such as age at onset of depression, number of previous depressive episodes, duration of current depressive episode, and the presence of soft neurological signs, predict the outcome of an episode of depression in MDD patients who are treated with an AD.
