title: Convergent and discriminant validity of the Arabic Obsessive-Compulsive Scale for Kuwaiti and American college students.
abstract: In two samples of 87 Kuwaiti and 73 American undergraduates, scores on the Arabic Obsessive-Compulsive Scale correlated .71 and .63 with those on another obsession scale, respectively, while they correlated .49 and .19 with scores on a depression scale. The differences between these correlations in the two samples indicated good convergent and discriminant validity of the Arabic Obsessive-Compulsive Scale in both cultures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University, Kaifan.
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abdel-Khalek
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003469:Culture; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007730:Kuwait / Q000453:epidemiology; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology