Obsession-compulsion, locus of control, depression, and hopelessness: a construct validity of the Arabic Obsessive-Compulsive Scale in American and Kuwaiti students

Psychol Rep. 2000 Jun;86(3 Pt 2):1187-8. doi: 10.2466/pr0.2000.86.3c.1187.

Abstract

In samples of 144 American and 209 Kuwaiti college students, the correlations among scores on the Arabic Obsessive-Compulsive Scale and external locus of control (.26, .25), depression (.31, .55) and hopelessness (.27, .43) were significant and positive in both samples, denoting the construct validity of the Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. Thus, it can be recommended for use in both countries.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cross-Cultural Comparison*
  • Depression / ethnology*
  • Depression / psychology
  • Ethnicity / psychology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Internal-External Control*
  • Kuwait
  • Male
  • Motivation*
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / ethnology*
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / psychology
  • Psychometrics
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Students / psychology*
  • United States