title: A comparison of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder scales.
abstract: In this study, we utilized a large undergraduate sample (N = 536), oversampled for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text revision [DSM-IV-TR]; American Psychiatric Association, 2000) obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) pathology, to compare 8 self-report measures of OCPD. No prior study has compared more than 3 measures, and the results indicate that the scales had only moderate convergent validity. We also went beyond the existing literature to compare these scales to 2 external reference points: their relationships with a well-established measure of the five-factor model of personality (FFM) and clinicians' ratings of their coverage of the DSM-IV-TR criterion set. When the FFM was used as a point of comparison, the results suggest important differences among the measures with respect to their divergent representation of conscientiousness, neuroticism, and agreeableness. Additionally, an analysis of the construct coverage indicated that the measures also varied in terms of their representation of particular diagnostic criteria. For example, whereas some scales contained items distributed across the diagnostic criteria, others were concentrated more heavily on particular features of the DSM-IV-TR disorder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA. douglas.samuel@yale.edu
authors.forename: Douglas B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Samuel
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Widiger
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003193:Compulsive Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI / Q000592:standards; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000592:standards; D010556:Personality Tests / Q000592:standards*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000592:standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D055815:Young Adult
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