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Building upon earlier confirmatory factor analytic research that validated a. second-order, threefactor structure of the Beck Depression Inventory for Canadian and Swedish nonclinical adolescents, this study tested the factorial structure of the Swedish version of the instrument separately for 559 males and 537 females, and tested its measurement and structural equivalence across gender. Except for three minor discrepancies involving correlated errors, the hypothesized model best described the data for both males and females. Nonetheless, the imposition of equality constraints across sex revealed differences bearing on the measurement of six items, and latent construct relations involving the Somatic Elements factor. Four gender differences in factorial structure replicated findings for Canadian adolescents. Results have important implications for researchers, clinicians, and others whose interests focus on nonclinical adolescent depression. (Contains 35 references, 2 tables, and 1 figure.) (Author/SLD) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** Swedish BDI Across Gender Testing for a Gender-invariant Hierarchical Structure of Depression for Swedish Adolescents Barbara M. Byrne Pierre Baron University of Ottawa Bo Larsson Lennart Melin University of Uppsala Paper presented at.the American Psychological 1994 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles U S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office olEducafional Research and Improvement EDU 'ATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC' This document has been reproduced as wowed from the person or Organizalron DflOmafingq 1.4.nor changes have been made to improve reproduction quallty Pants of wee or opinions slated tn thrsdocu mere do not neCessanly repreSent °Dec's! OE RI pOseron or pOIrcy -PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY 84ReA4A 8ye/ug TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)