Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)
Self-report questionnaire with 53 items
Suitable for adults
English questionnaire
License fee: € 0,66 per completion
Self-report questionnaire with 53 items
Suitable for adults
English questionnaire
License fee: € 0,66 per completion
This self-report questionnaire is suitable for adults.
The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) is a 53-item self-report symptom inventory designed to reflect the psychological symptom patterns. It is essentially the brief form of the SCL-90-R.
Each item of the BSI is rated on a 5-point scale of distress (0-4), ranging from “not at all” (0) at one pole to “extremely” (4) at the other.
The Brief Symptom Inventory is scored and profiled in terms of nine primary symptom dimensions and three global indices of distress. The three global indices, nine dimensions, and 53 items reflect the three principal levels of interpretation of the BSI descending from general superordinate measures of psychological status, through syndromal representation, to individual symptoms.
The primary symptoms dimensions are:
The global indices are:
The Brief Symptom Inventory has been rated to be a sufficient reliable, sensitive, and valid questionnaire. The questionnaire is sensitive to treatment effects. There are multiple norm-groups that have been incorporated in the questionnaire:
Derogatis, L.R. BSI 18 Brief Symptom Inventory. Administration, Scoring, and Procedures Manual. Bloomington: PsychCorp.
© 1982, 1992 Leonard R. Derogatis, PhD. All rights reserved.