Means and standard deviations of depression severity, dimensions of depressive experiences,
and interpersonal problems are depicted in Table 2. A PCA 2-factor solution of the BDI items
explained 35.7% of the variance. Both factors closely resemble the factors described by Beck,
Steer and Brown (1996) and were termed “cognitive” and “somatic–affective” symptoms. Two
items (01: mood, and 10: crying) showed moderate loadings on both factors and were therefore
not included for the computation of subscales. For the HRSD, neither a two- nor a threeor
four-factor solution revealed interpretable, theoretically meaningful factors. Therefore, the
HRSD total score was used for subsequent analyses