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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 97-103Publisher
HOGREFE & HUBER PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000276
Keywords
obsessive-compulsive disorder; children; adolescents; assessment; factorial invariance
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- Junta de Andalucia (Proyecto de excelencia) [P06-HUM-1548]
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Evidence-based assessment is necessary as a first step for developing psychopathological studies and assessing the effectiveness of empirically validated treatments. There are several measures of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and/or symptomatology in children and adolescents, but all of them present some limitations. The Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R) by Foa and her colleagues has showed to be a good self-report measure to capture the dimensionality of OCD in adults and adolescents. The child version of the OCI (OCI-CV) was validated for clinical children and adolescents in 2010, showing excellent psychometric properties. The objective of this study was to examine the factor structure and invariance of the OCI-CV in the general population. Results showed a six-factor structure with one second-order factor, good consistency values, and invariance across region, age, and sex. The OCI-CV is an excellent inventory for assessing the dimensions of OCD symptomatology in general populations of children and adolescents. The invariance across sex and age warrants its utilization for research purposes.
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