Abstract
El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el desempeño de la versión brasileña del Inventario de Depresión de Beck (BDI) usando el modelo de Rasch. Para ello 271 participantes fueron reclutados, entre 18 y 51 años de edad (M = 23,61; SD = 6.12), 187 (69%) mujeres y 84 hombres, todos son estudiantes universitarios brasileños. Los participantes respondieron a la BDI sobre la evaluación de los síntomas de la depresión Los resultados sugieren la adecuación de las propiedades psicométricas del instrumento y demuestran la aplicabilidad del modelo de Rasch en prácticas clínicas. Entre las herramientas más importantes que ofrece el modelo de Rasch se explora el uso del mapa persona-artículos, que presenta visualmente la construcción psicológica intuitivamente comprensible a lo largo de la escala dimensional del instrumento.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.