Reliability of the Arabic Obsessive-Compulsive Scale in Kuwaiti and American students

A M Abdel-Khalek; D Lester

doi:10.2466/pr0.1998.83.3f.1470

Reliability of the Arabic Obsessive-Compulsive Scale in Kuwaiti and American students

Psychol Rep. 1998 Dec;83(3 Pt 2):1470. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1998.83.3f.1470.

Authors

A M Abdel-Khalek¹, D Lester

Affiliation

¹ Department of Psychology, College of Arts, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait.

PMID: 10079738
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1998.83.3f.1470

Abstract

The Arabic Obsessive-Compulsive Scale was administered to 204 Kuwaiti and 132 American college students. The Spearman-Brown reliabilities were, respectively .77 and .82, while Cronbach alphas were .76 and .82, denoting acceptable values for the two samples.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Arabs / psychology*
Cross-Cultural Comparison*
Female
Humans
Kuwait
Male
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / diagnosis*
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / ethnology
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / psychology
Personality Inventory / statistics & numerical data*
Psychometrics
Reference Values
Reproducibility of Results
Students / psychology*
United States