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Factor analysis of the General Health Questionnaire
R S Epstein1, C S Fullerton, R J Ursano
1Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799.
Psychological Reports
|October 1, 1994
Abstract:
We present the factor structure of the General Health Questionnaire-60 as derived from a population of 2115 Army soldiers. An eight-factor principal components analysis provided the most clinically relevant solution and explained 58.0% of the variance. We distinguished two types of depressive symptomatology, suggesting the questionnaire may be useful in differentiating shame-ridden dysphoria from anergic disinterest.