A bifactor representation of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for children: gender and age invariance and implications for adolescents’ social and academic adjustment

Table 4 Correlations between depressive symptoms and variables used for testing convergent and discriminant validity (N = 282)

	Personality						Well-being			Social Relationships			Academic Adaptations
	CES-DC (Total score)	Agreea-bleness	Conscien-tiousness	Open-ness	Extra-version	Neuro-ticism	Positive emotions	Negative emotions	Physical health status ^a	School connected-ness	Loneliness	Social anxious behaviors	Academic self-efficacy	Disruptive behaviors
CES-DC (Total score)	1	− 0.13*	− 0.24***	− 0.10	− 0.17**	0.60***	− 0.28***	0.64***	− 0.36***	− 0.45***	0.56***	0.35***	− 0.37***	0.20***
M	1.85	3.84	3.55	3.40	3.37	2.83	3.12	2.08	73.82	3.71	1.73	2.02	3.53	1.64
SD	0.46	0.77	0.71	0.94	0.94	0.97	0.74	0.71	22.04	0.61	0.51	0.71	0.94	0.81

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