In two samples of 87 Kuwaiti and 73 American undergraduates, scores on the Arabic Obsessive–Compulsive Scale correlated .71 and .63 with those on another obsession scale, respectively, while they correlated .49 and .19 with scores on a depression scale. The differences between these correlations in the two samples indicated good convergent and discriminant validity of the Arabic Obsessive–Compulsive Scale in both cultures.
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