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Objective To examine the reliability and validity of compensative neurosis assessing scale (CNAS) and in order to develop the quantitative assessing method for distinguishing the compensation neurosis from malingering and typical neurosis. Methods The reliability and validity of the scale was tested based on the subjects including the cases involved forensic problems, the patients with typical neurosis in general psychiatric 0.944. The test-retest reliability was more than 0.820. The scorer reliability was more than 0. 812. The total accu-racy rate of CNAS for evaluating three groups of subjects based on the experts diagnosis, and with 91.2% of speci-ficity and 79.3% of sensitivity for evaluating compensation neurosis. Condusion The CNAS has acceptable psy-chometrics properties on reliability and validity. It will provide method to distinguish the compensation neurosis from malingering and typical neuroses.