Padua Inventory for Chinese College Students / 中国临床心理学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To develop the Padua Inventory(PI) for the use of Chinese college students;explore the structure and examine the sex difference in non-clinical sample in China.Methods: The PI was filled by 1300 college subjects,including 680 males and 542 females(78 gender missing),aged 19.6?2.2,for exploratory factor analysis(EFA).The second sample has 30 college students from Peking University for test-retest study.Results: The results of EFA has four factors: impaired control over mental activities/doubting,worries of losing control over motor activities,contamination,and checking.Reliabilities of four factors are 0.94,0.85,0.86,0.83 for each and 0.96 for the total scores.The test-retest correlations of the four factors are 0.77,0.87,0.85,0.84 for each.Females scored significantly higher in factor 3(P=.000) while males scoring significantly higher in factor 4(P=.017).Conclusion: The results suggest that PI has eligible psychometric reliability,but needs further study for the validity in China.