Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R)
Self-report questionnaire with 90 items
Suitable for adults
English questionnaire
License fee: € 1,68 per completion
For whom is the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised intended?
This self-report questionnaire is suitable for adults.
What does the SCL-90-R measure?
The Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) is a 90-item self-report symptom inventory designed to reflect the psychological symptom patterns of community, medical and psychiatric respondents.
What does the SCL-90-R questionnaire consist of?
Each item is rated on a 5 point scale of distress (0-4) ranging from “Not at All” to “Extremely”.
How does the SCL-90-R scoring work?
The SCL-90-R is scored and interpreted in term of nine primary symptom dimensions and three global indices of distress.
The primary symptom dimensions and global indices are labelled as follows:
- Somatization (SOM)
- Obsessive-Compulsive (O-C)
- Interpersonal Sensitivity (I-S)
- Depression (DEP)
- Anxiety (ANX)
- Hostility (HOS)
- Phobic Anxiety (PHOB)
- Paranoid Ideation (PAR)
- Psychoticism (PSY)
- Global Severity Index (GSI)
- Positive Symptom Distress Index (PSDI)
- Positive Symptom Total (PST)
There has been a lot of research conducted on the SCL-90-R and has been proven to have good reliability and sensitivity. There are four norm groups for the SCL-90-R:
- adult psychiatric outpatient
- adult nonpatient
- adult psychiatric inpatient
- adolescent nonpatient (applicable to adolescents who are 13 to 19 year old).
Each of the four groups have separate norms for males and females.
Source of the questionnaire
Derogatis, L.R. (1977). SCL-90-R Symptom Checklist-90-R Administration, Scoring, and Procedures Manual. Bloomington: PsychCorp.
This digitised questionnaire has been manufactured by Embloom after written consent by Pearson. This material is copyright protected and copying without the written permission of the publisher is therefore not allowed.
