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A Contemporary Psychometric Evaluation Of The Obsessive Compulsive Inventory-Revised (Oci-R), Bethany M. Wootton, Gretchen J. Diefenbach, Laura B. Bragdon, Gail Steketee, Randy O. Frost, David F. Tolin

Psychology: Faculty Publications

Traditionally, hoarding symptoms were coded under obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), however, in DSM-5 hoarding symptoms are classified as a new independent diagnosis, hoarding disorder (HD). This change will likely have a considerable impact on the self-report scales that assess symptoms of OCD, since these scales often include items measuring symptoms of hoarding. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of one of the most commonly used self-report measures of OCD symptoms, the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R), in a sample of 474 individuals with either OCD (n = 118), HD (n = 201), or no current or past psychiatric disorders (n = 155). Participants …