Yale-brown obsessive compulsive scale: Psychometric properties of the self-report version in a student sample

Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 226-235

  Ólafsson, Ragnar P ^a   Snorrason, Ívar ^b   Smári, Jakob ^b  

^a LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Assessment; Confirmatory factor analysis; OCD; Validity; Y BOCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ICELAND; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE INVENTORY; PENN STATE WORRY QUESTIONNAIRE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDITY; YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE;

EID: 77954455716     PISSN: 08822689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10862-009-9146-0     Document Type: Article

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