title: Temporal stability of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions in an undergraduate sample: a prospective 2-year follow-up study.
abstract: The temporal stability of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions was studied in a nonclinical student sample. The Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory--Revised was administered twice to 132 undergraduate students during a 2-year period. There were no significant changes in symptom dimension scores between the baseline and follow-up, except for the Obsessing scale. The score of each dimension at follow-up was strongly and uniquely predicted from the score on the same dimension at baseline. The results indicate that obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions tend to be temporally stable in nonclinical participants, replicating similar studies in clinical populations.
authors.affiliation: Autonomous University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
authors.forename: Miquel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Fullana
authors.forename: Miquel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tortella-Feliu
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Caseras
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Taberner
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Torrubia
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mataix-Cols
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors