Psychometric Properties of a Persian-Language Version of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised: OCI-R-Persian

Habibollah Ghassemzadeh, Giti Shams, Jamal Abedi, Narges Karamghadiri, Narges Ebrahimkhani, Mansoureh Rajabloo

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DOI: 10.4236/psych.2011.23032                

Abstract

The psychometric properties of the Persian-language version of Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory- Revised (OCI-R) were studied in a sample of Iranian college students (N = 450). The total and each of the subscales of OCI-R-Persian demonstrated very high internal consistency as well as high test-retest reliability. Convergent and divergent validity of the OCI-R-Persian total scale and subscales were satisfactory. In general, the OCI-R-Persian appears to be a reliable and valid measure of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in this non-clinical sample of Iranian college students.

Keywords

Confirmatory Factor Structure, OCD, OCI-R-Persian, Psychometric Properties

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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