Symptom structure in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A confirmatory factor-analytic study

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 297-311

  Summerfeldt, Laura J ^a   Richter, Margaret A ^b   Antony, Martin M ^a   Swinson, Richard P ^b  

^a ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Heterogeneity; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Structural model; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPULSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSESSION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0033059540     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(98)00134-X     Document Type: Article

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