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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. Items for each dimension of the BSI were selected based on a factor analysis of the SCL-R-90, with the highest loading items on each dimension selected for the BSI (Derogatis, 1993; Derogatis Cleary, 1977; Derogatis Spencer, 1982). Materials Copyrighted forms and the BSI manual (Derogatis, 1993) are available from the publisher. Time Required 8-12 minutes Administration Method Self- or interviewer-administered Rev. 04/08 32 Training Minimal 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: ? Somatization: Items 2, 7, 23, 29, 30, 33, and 37 ? Obsession-Compulsion: Items 5, 15, 26, 27, 32, and 36 ? Interpersonal Sensitivity: Items 20, 21, 22, and 42 ? Depression: Items 9, 16, 17, 18, 35, and 50 ? Anxiety: Items 1, 12, 19, 38, 45, and 49 ? Hostility: Items 6, 13, 40, 41, and 46 ? Phobic Anxiety: Items 8, 28, 31, 43, and 47 ? Par