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Brief Symptom Inventory
Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) Derogatis, L. 1975 Description of Measure Purpose To identify self-reported clinically relevant psychological symptoms in adolescents and adults. Conceptual Organization The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) consists of 53 items covering nine Symptom dimensions: Somatization, Obsession-Compulsion, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Depression, Anxiety, Hostility, Phobic anxiety, Paranoid ideation and Psychoticism; and three global indices of distress: Global Severity Index, Positive Symptom Distress Index, and Positive Symptom Total. The global indices measure current or past level of symptomatology, intensity of symptoms, and number of reported symptoms, respectively. Item Origin/Selection Process The BSI is the short version of the SCL-R-90 (Derogatis, 1975, 1977), which measures the same dimensions.
Scoring . Score Types Respondents rank each feeling item (e.g., “your feelings being easily hurt”) on a 5-point scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 4 (extremely). Rankings characterize the intensity of distress during the past seven days. The items comprising each of the 9 primary symptom dimensions are as follows: •
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