In studies of clinical depression, individuals who demonstrate elevated levels of symptoms but do not meet interview-based diagnostic criteria are typically labeled as false positive and eliminated from further consideration. However, the implicit assumption that false-positive participants differ in important ways from true-positive (i.e., diagnosed) participants has not been tested systematically. This study compared the functioning of true-positive, false-positive, and true-negative adolescents on clinical and psychosocial functioning. Although the false-positive participants manifested higher levels of current and future psychopathology than did the true-negative participants, they did not differ significantly from the true-positive participants on most of the measures of psychosocial dysfunction. "False positive," therefore, is not a benign condition. © 1995 American Psychological Association.
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Gotlib, I. H., Lewinsohn, P. M., & Seeley, J. R. (1995). Symptoms Versus a Diagnosis of Depression: Differences in Psychosocial Functioning. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 63(1), 90–100. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-006x.63.1.90
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