Examining Cross-Cultural Invariance of Common Mental Disorder Symptom Measures in the United States and Singapore.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Constructs of common mental disorder (CMD) symptoms, including anxiety, depression, obsessions, compulsions, and worry, are observed in a wide range of psychiatric conditions. Reliable and valid measurements of these CMD symptoms are essential for building a generalizable science of psychopathology and ensuring valid comparisons of scores across distinct groups. Accordingly, the current study determined the psychometric properties of four widely used CMD symptom measures in the United States (U.S.) and Singapore.

Method

Participants comprised college students (U.S.: n = 292; SG: n = 144) who completed the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R), and Penn State Worry Questionn

SUBMITTER: Van Doren N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11981594 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature