摘要:As previous researchers have found, like other parts of the world, depression is prevalent
among middle school teachers in China. The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) has
been widely used to detect depression among workers in different careers all over
the world and has shown good scale properties but inconsistent factor structures. To
examine the psychometric properties of the BDI-II among middle school teachers, a
nationally representative sample of 4,672 valid cases from 688 middle schools were
included. We first generated a new bifactor model based on exploratory factor analysis
and agglomerate cluster analysis of the residual item correlations and then validated
the modes and examined measurement invariance across gender and school location
with multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Results indicated that (1) a new
bifactor model with a general factor and two group factors (cognitive–affective group
factor and somatic group factor) fitted well to the data [WLSMV χ
2 = 745.651, df = 173,
P < 0.001, CFI = 0.983, TLI = 0.979, RMSEA = 0.037; 90% CI (0.035, 0.040)]; Omega
values for the three factors varied from 0.88 to 0.92; (2) measurement invariance tests
indicated that the BDI-II could equally measure depression of middle school teachers
across gender and school location groups. All the findings suggest that the BDI-II is
a self-report inventory with good psychometric properties for measuring depression
among middle school teachers in China.