Brief Symptom Inventory.
BSI
- What it measures
- Brief broadband distress; same 9 SCL-90-R symptom dimensions + GSI/PSDI/PST global indices
- Length and format
- 53 items. 5-pt Likert distress (0-4), past 7 days (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 20+ langs incl. ES, DE, FR, NL, IT, ZH, AR, PT, EL, HE
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- Derogatis, L.R., & Melisaratos, N. (1983). The Brief Symptom Inventory: an introductory report. Psychological Medicine, 13(3), 595-605.
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