The Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, Rush, Shaw & Emery, 1979) is a 21-question self-report inventory, one of the most widely used instruments for measuring the severity of depression. Each question has a set of four possible answer choices, ranging in intensity. In this dataset, the respondents are 242 McGill University students. The data were collected by Prof. David Zuroff.
These data come from a multiple-choice examination given to 379 students in an introductory course in psychology in the Christmas exam period of 1989 at McGill. The test consisted of 100 multiple-choice items, each having four response options.
These data come from the Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing Efficacy Study (2000a,b), conducted in 1995-1997, by the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco. This study was concerned with the effectiveness of HIV counseling and testing in reducing risk behavior for the sexual transmission of HIV. As part of this study, respondents were surveyed about their attitude toward condom use via a bank of 15 items. Respondents were asked how much they agreed with each of the statements on a 4-point response scale.