The Center of Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D) has been used for decades to identify symptomatology of depression in individuals. Overtime, the factor structure of the scale has been both confirmed and challenged when applied to different population samples. The present study explores the factor structure in population sample consisting of impoverished African American parents ( N =1,020), and the data were collected from the Mobile Youth Study (MYS). Two-, four-, and higher-order models were used to identify the best fitting model. The results indicate that the most parsimonious model is a two-factor structure.

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贫困非洲裔样本中CES-D的因子结构

流行病学研究中心的抑郁量表（CES-D）已用于识别个人抑郁症的症状数十年。随着时间的推移，该量表的因子结构在应用于不同人群样本时既得到确认，又面临挑战。本研究探讨了由贫困的非洲裔美国父母（N = 1,020）组成的人口样本中的因素结构，数据来自“流动青年研究”（MYS）。使用二阶，四阶和高阶模型来确定最佳拟合模型。结果表明，最简约的模型是两因素结构。