The Maudsley Obsessional-Compulsive Inventory: a psychometric investigation on Chinese normal subjects

The 30-item Maudsley Obsessional-Compulsive Inventory (MOCI) was administered to 183 normal English-speaking Chinese subjects. The inventory achieved modest to relatively low internal consistency as a scale and as four subscales. Three independent dimensions of obsessional complaints interpretable as Perfectionistic and Repetitive Checking, Fear of Contamination, and Doubting Rumination emerged in the factor analysis of item responses. While the first factor corresponded to the Checking component, the second to the Cleaning component, the third was reminiscent of the Doubting, Ruminating and Slowness components. The responses to the MOCI were also explored in their correlations with depression and assertiveness. These results were discussed in in terms of the development of a refined and shortened version of the MOCI and their implications for developing differential treatment models for obsessive-compulsive patients.