Assessment of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions: Development and evaluation of the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale.

• DOI: 10.1037/a0018260
• Publication Date: 2010-03-15T20:32:09Z
• Authors: Jonathan S. Abram...; Brett J. Deacon; Bunmi O. Olatunji; Michael G. Wheaton; Noah C. Berman; Diane Losardo; Kiara R. Timpano; Patrick B. McGrath; Bradley C. Riemann; Thomas Adams; Thröstur Björgvin...; Eric A. Storch; Lisa R. Hale
• Keywords: Adult; Male; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; compulsive; Adolescent; Psychometrics; assessment; 150; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Personality Assessment; Education; scale; Diagnosis, Differential; Young Adult; Reference Values; Humans; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences; development; evaluation; dimensional; 05 social sciences; Reproducibility of Results; obsessive; symptom; Anxiety Disorders; Female; dimensions

Although several measures of obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms exist, most are limited in that they not consistent with the recent empirical findings on nature and dimensional structure obsessions compulsions. In present research, authors developed evaluated a measure called Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DOCS) to address limitations existing OC symptom measures. The DOCS is 20-item assesses four dimensions reliably replicated previous structural research. Factorial validity was supported by exploratory confirmatory factor analyses 3 samples, including individuals disorder, those other anxiety disorders, nonclinical individuals. Scores displayed good performance indices reliability validity, as well sensitivity treatment diagnostic sensitivity, hold promise clinical research settings.