Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44 (OBQ-44)

BMC Psychiatry

Table 2 Correlations between OBQ-44 (total and subscales scores) and Y-BOCS, and BDI

	OBQ-44	RT	PC	ICT
Non-clinical sample (n = 569)
Y-BOCS	0.431^**	0.422^**	0.375^**	0.403^**
OS	0.405^**	0.404^**	0.349^**	0.376^**
CS	0.401^**	0.384^**	0.353^**	0.374^**
BDI	0.335^**	0.349^**	0.292^**	0.290^**
Clinical sample (n = 66)
Y-BOCS	0.419^**	0.402^**	0.412^**	0.312^*
OS	0.265^*	0.230^*	0.280^*	0.206^*
CS	0.334^**	0.344^**	0.311^*	0.240^*
BDI	0.515^**	0.537^**	0.432^**	0.437^**

*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01
OBQ-44 Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire 44-item version; RT Responsibility/Threat estimation; PC Perfectionism/Certainty; ICT Importance/Control of Thoughts; YdBOCS the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale; OS Obsessions severity; CS compulsions severity; BDI the Beck Depression Inventory

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