Structure of Depression in Alcoholic Men: A Partial Replication

Abstract

The Beck Depression Inventory was self-administered to 101 men admitted for alcoholism treatment at a large metropolitan, community mental health center, and their responses to the 21 items of the inventory were subjected to a maximum-likelihood factor analysis. One meaningful oblique factor was identified as representing Intrapunitive Self-attitudes which reflected a sense of failure and self-criticalness. The factor structure of the inventory for this alcoholic sample was then compared to a previous factor analysis for black alcoholic men. Only the factor representing Intrapunitive Self-attitudes emerged in both samples.