Obsessive Compulsive Inventory - Revised (OCI-R)

Foa, E. B., Huppert, J. D., Leiberg, S., Langner, R., Kichic, R., Hajcak, G., & Salkovskis, P. M. (2002). The obsessive-compulsive inventory: Development and validation of a short version. Psychological Assessment, 14(4), 485-496. doi: 10.1037//1040-3590.14.4.485


Table of Contents

Description

History of Use

References

Description:

Purpose
The OCI-R was designed to be a self-report instrument to determine the diagnosis and severity of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and is a shorter revised version of the original OCI (Foa et al. 1998).
Questions
18 items using a five-point distress scale
Sub-scales
6 sub-scales:
  • Washing
  • Checking
  • Ordering
  • Obsessing
  • Hoarding
  • Neutralizing
Domain

Psychometrics

Sample items
  • I think contact with bodily secretions [perspiration, saliva, blood, urine, etc.] may contaminate my clothes or somehow harm me
  • I ask people to repeat things to me several times, even though I understood them the first time
  • I need to pray to cancel bad thoughts or feelings

References:

Scale:
  • Foa, E. B., Kozak, M. J., Salkovskis, P. M., Coles, M. E., & Amir, N. (1998). The validation of a new obsessive-compulsive disorder scale: The Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory. Psychological Assessment, 10, 206-214. doi: 10.1037/1040-3590.10.3.206
  • Foa, E. B., Huppert, J. D., Leiberg, S., Langner, R., Kichic, R., Hajcak, G., & Salkovskis, P. M. (2002). The obsessive-compulsive inventory: Development and validation of a short version. Psychological Assessment, 14(4), 485-496. doi: 10.1037//1040-3590.14.4.485
Uses:

  • Zermatten, A., & Van der Linden, M. (2008). Impulsivity in non-clinical persons with obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Personality and Individual Differences, 44(8), 1824-1830. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.01.025
  • Schonberg, T., Daw, N. D., Joel, D., & O'Doherty, J. P. (2007). Reinforcement learning signals in the human striatum distinguish learners from nonlearners during reward-based decision making. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(47), 12860-12867. doi: 10.1523/jneurosci.2496-07.2007



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