Performance of bilingual subjects on Spanish and English versions of the Depression Adjective Check Lists

To study the performance of bilingual subjects on the Spanish and English versions of the Depression Adjective Check Lists (DACL), 27 males and 34 females completed the three forms of the DACL (E, F, and G), each of which was printed half in Spanish and half in English. Order of language was counterbalanced. No significant effects either for language or sex of subject were found. These findings, together with high correlations (.84 to .89) between the Spanish and English halves of each list, support the use of the Spanish version of the DACL in research with Spanish-speaking subjects from the southwestern United States.