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ERIC Number: EJ689726
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Mar
Pages: 16
Abstractor: Author
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1073-1911
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Development and Validation of the Schedule of Compulsions, Obsessions, and Pathological Impulses (SCOPI)
Watson, David; Wu, Kevin D.
Assessment, v12 n1 p50-65 Mar 2005
This article describes a factor analytically derived, self-report instrument - the Schedule of Compulsions, Obsessions, and Pathological Impulses (SCOPI) - using data from college students, adults, psychiatric outpatients, and patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The five SCOPI scales all are internally consistent (with coefficient alphas of .80 and higher) and are strongly stable across a 2-month interval (with retest correlations ranging from .79 to .82). They also show good convergent and adequate discriminant validity (a) when correlated with other OCD measures and (b) in analyses of self-ratings versus spouse ratings. Additional analyses indicate that three scales - Obsessive Checking, Obsessive Cleanliness, and Compulsive Rituals - assess core symptoms of OCD. The two remaining scales - Hoarding and Pathological Impulses - appear to tap different (but related) constructs.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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