Obsession-compulsion, locus of control, depression, and hopelessness: a construct validity of the Arabic Obsessive-Compulsive Scale in American and Kuwaiti students.
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.
Department of Psychology, College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait.
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D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003863:Depression / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007730:Kuwait; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States