Assessment of Obsessive Thoughts About COVID-19 in 7 Latin American Countries: Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Obsession With COVID-19 Scale
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2023
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Caycho Rodríguez, Tomás
Rivera Calcina, Renzo
Vilca, Lindsey W.
Carbajal León, Carlos
Valencia, Pablo D.
Yupanqui Lorenzo, Daniel E.
Arias Gallegos, Walter L.
Reyes Bossio, Mario
Oré Kovacs, Nicol
Rojas Jara, Claudio
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The present study aimed to evaluate the measurement invariance of the Obsession
with COVID-19 Scale (OCS) among seven Latin American countries: Bolivia, Brazil,
Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Although the OCS has been used
in several countries and languages, there is a need for approaches that better integrate
the cross-cultural equivalence of the scale. A total of 3185 people participated in the
study. The results indicated the presence of a unidimensional structure and good
reliability indices for the OCS in each country. The alignmentmethod indicated that the
OCS is an invariant measure of COVID-19 obsession among the populations of seven
Latin American countries. The findings based on IRT analysis indicated that all OCS
items had adequate discrimination and difficulty parameters. The findings contribute to
the understanding of the internal structure of the scale in different countries at the
same time, something that has been pending evaluation.
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Alignment method, COVID-19, Invariance, Obsession, LATIN AMERICA