caa a22 4500 477121810 CHVBK 20180405111638.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02229117 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02229117 The stability and clinical significance of distress: A rejoinder to pepper and coyne [Elektronische Daten] [Gordon Flett, Karel Vredenburg, Lester Krames] Past research has established that some individuals with high Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scores at one time point have scores that are lower at a second time point. Recently, we provided evidence indicating that the temporal instability of certain BDI scores may be due partly to the regression to the mean phenomenon. Pepper and Coyne (1996) question this statistical interpretation; they argue that distress among students is unstable for substantive reasons. In the current paper, we reaffirm our view that statistical and measurement factors may account, in part, for changes in BDI scores over time. Given this possibility, inferences about "distress” or "depression” as a latent construct in student samples are not warranted if these inferences are based on the administration of a single instrument such as the BDI; any conclusions about distress as a psychological construct must be qualified by acknowledging the possible roles of error and method variance. Clearly, empirical research is needed in order to obtain a better understanding of the nature of distress as a latent variable, especially in light of evidence which indicates that subthreshold levels of depression have a high degree of clinical significance. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1996 depression nationallicence distress nationallicence statistical regression nationallicence stability of mood nationallicence the analogue-clinical debate nationallicence Flett Gordon Department of Psychology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J 1P3, North York, Ontario, Canada aut Vredenburg Karel University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut Krames Lester University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 18/2(1996-06-01), 187-196 0882-2689 18:2<187 1996 18 10862 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02229117 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02229117 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Flett Gordon Department of Psychology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J 1P3, North York, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vredenburg Karel University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Krames Lester University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 18/2(1996-06-01), 187-196 0882-2689 18:2<187 1996 18 10862 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer