The Depressive Experiences Questionnaire
(DEQ; Blatt, Quinlan, & D'Afflitti, 1976) and the Depressive Experiences
Questionnaire for adolescents (DEQ-A; Blatt, Schaffer, Bers, & Quinlan,
1992) are both copyrighted. However, the authors are happy to have
them used by qualified researchers and clinicians without cost. They
have given me permission to distribute the scales by email. For additional
information, contact Prof. Sidney Blatt (sidney.blatt@yale.edu)
at Yale University.
Several shortened versions of the DEQ have been published,
including one from our lab (Santor, Zuroff, & Fielding, 1997.
Unless brevity is crucial to you, I recommend that you use the standard,
66-item version of the DEQ. An important advantage of the standard
DEQ is that there are scoring procedures for extracting subscales of the
Dependency or interpersonal factor. The subscales represent more
and less mature forms of interpersonal relatedness. For additional
information about these subscales, see the following references:
Blatt, S.J., Zohar, A.H., Quinlan, D.M., Zuroff, D.C., & Mongrain,
M. (1995). Subscales within the dependency factor of The Depressive Experiences
Questionnaire. Journal of Personality Assessment, 64, 319-339.
Blatt, S.J., Zohar, A., Quinlan, D.M., Luthar, S., & Hart, B. (1996).
Levels of relatedness within the dependency factor of the Depressive Experiences
Questionnaire for Adolescents. Journal of Personality Assessment,
62, 52-71.
Rude, S.S. & Burnham (1995). Connectedness and neediness: Factors
of the DEQ and SAS dependency scales. Cognitive Therapy and Research,
19, 323-340.
Please email me if you would like copies of any of the following:
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Depressive Experiences Questionnaire for adults (WordPerfect or Word).
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Depressive Experiences Questionnaire for adolescents (WordPerfect or Word).
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The 48-item version of the DEQ developed by Santor et al. (1997).
This version uses unit-weighted scoring rather than factor scoring.
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DEQ in languages other than English, including French, Spanish, German,
Russian, Swedish, and Hebrew.
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SAS scoring program for the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire for adults.
This program produces the standard factor scores for the three DEQ scales
(dependency, self-criticism, and efficacy) as well as the two subscales
for the dependency or interpersonal factor.
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SAS scoring program for the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire for adolescents.
This program produces the standard factor scores for the three DEQ scales
(dependency, self-criticism, and efficacy) as well as the two subscales
for the dependency or interpersonal factor.
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SPSS scoring programs for the DEQ for adults and adolescents.
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