title: Reliability, validity, and cut scores of the south oaks gambling screen (SOGS) for Chinese.
abstract: We examined the reliability, validity, and classification accuracy of the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) when adopted for use in Chinese. The DSM-IV criteria for pathological gambling served as the standard against which the classification accuracy of the SOGS was tested. A total of 283 Chinese adults in the community and 94 Chinese treatment-seeking gamblers were recruited. The internal reliability of the SOGS was satisfactory for the general sample and acceptable for the gambling sample. The SOGS was correlated with the DSM-IV criteria items as well as psychosocial and gambling-related problems. Relative to the DSM-IV criteria, the SOGS tended to overestimate the number of pathological gamblers in both samples. In general, we were relatively confident that individuals were not pathological gamblers if the SOGS scores were between 0 and 4 and were pathological gamblers if the SOGS were between 11 and 20. There was about 50-50 chance of being pathological gamblers if the SOGS scores were between 8 and 10. However, the probability of individuals being pathological gamblers was about 0.30 if the SOGS scores were between 5 and 7. We proposed a SOGS cut score of 8 to screen for probable pathological gambling in Chinese societies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, AS4, Level 2, 9 Arts Link, Singapore, 117570, Singapore. tang.catherine@nus.edu.sg
authors.forename: Catherine So-kum
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Anise M S
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Joe Y C
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Elsie C W
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Yan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D002681:China; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D007174:Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D005715:Gambling / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating
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