The Behavioral Assessment System for Children, 3rd edition (BASC-3) is a commonly used clinical assessment to evaluate a variety of behavioral and emotional concerns in children and adolescents. The focus of the current study is on the problematic interpretation of the F Index of the BASC-3 self-report measure for adolescents (SRP-A) suffering from depressive disorders. In this study, we used data from 214 patients in an adolescent partial hospitalization program within a psychiatric facility, all of whom were administered the BASC-3 SRP-A upon intake. Results suggest that the BASC-3 SRP-A F Index may confound an invalid response style of intentional overreporting with significant psychopathology in this specific psychiatric population. Our findings raise the question of similar confounding across psychiatric diagnoses and similar interpretation problems. We encourage further studies with independent samples of adolescents with a broad spectrum of diagnoses to address this question and offer a proposal if indeed there is evidence of a more generalized problem with the SRP-A F Index. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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BASC-3 SRP-A F指数对抑郁症患者的解释问题：初步分析和建议，以供将来研究。

儿童行为评估系统，第3版（BASC-3）是一种常用的临床评估，用于评估儿童和青少年的各种行为和情感问题。当前研究的重点是对患有抑郁症的青少年BASC-3自我报告测量（SRP-A）的F指数的解释有问题。在这项研究中，我们使用了来自精神科设施中青少年部分住院治疗方案中214例患者的数据，所有患者均在摄入后接受了BASC-3 SRP-A的治疗。结果表明，在该特定的精神病患者中，BASC-3 SRP-A F指数可能会混淆无效的故意过度报告与重大精神病理学反应方式。我们的发现提出了跨精神病学诊断和相似的解释问题存在类似混淆的问题。我们鼓励对具有广泛诊断范围的青少年独立样本进行进一步研究，以解决这个问题，如果确实有证据表明SRP-A F指数存在更普遍的问题，则可以提出建议。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。