Exploratory factor analytical study of depressive symptomatology: an Arab experience with a sample comprising college students, using the revised Beck Depression Inventory.

However, the item was retained because, among other reasons, its corrected item-total correlation was always highly significant. 17 In factor analysis terminology, a variable with the highest factor loading can be viewed as a surrogate representative for a particular factor dimension. 42 In line with this view, our factor structure can be said to have defined depression in a manner consistent with theory, because sadness, self-dislike (factor 1), and guilt feelings (factor 3) were the most definitive of the cognitive domain, whereas irritability and change in sleep pattern and appetite (factors 2 and 4) mostly defined the somatic-affective domain.

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