Abstract In the past years, the key role of cognitive aspects of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been investigated. When it comes to OCD it's crucial to explore the fear of losing control as a key element of thinking among several others. The existing experimental evidence largely indicates that beliefs play a role in either worsening or alleviating symptoms of OCD. Relatedly, Radomsky and Gagné (2020) introduced the Beliefs About Losing Control Inventory (BALCI), the first self-report tool for examining negative beliefs in the context of OCD. It yielded strong psychometric evidence, capturing three factors; negative beliefs about losing control over one’s thoughts, behaviour, and emotions (TBE; Factor 1), beliefs about the importance of staying in control (ISC; Factor 2), and beliefs about losing control over one’s body/bodily functions (BBF; Factor 3). This study aimed to adapt and validate the Beliefs About Losing Control Inventory (BALCI) for non-clinical Italian adults using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). A total of 327 participants were enrolled from two study phases, and most of the participants were females between the ages of 18 and 32. A CFA was conducted using Mplus 7 software to assess the model fit for the adapted BALCI version. The results indicated that the BALCI Italian Version validated 21 items in three mentioned factors (χ2 = 459.671, χ2/df = 2.47, CFI = 0.93, TLI = 0.92, RMSEA = 0.06. The Italian version of BALCI demonstrated excellent scale score reliability with a McDonald's omega of .95, along with a test-retest correlation of .xxx; the These results underscore the BALCI Italian version trustworthiness for use by Italian academics and mental health practitioners.

Abstract In the past years, the key role of cognitive aspects of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been investigated. When it comes to OCD it's crucial to explore the fear of losing control as a key element of thinking among several others. The existing experimental evidence largely indicates that beliefs play a role in either worsening or alleviating symptoms of OCD. Relatedly, Radomsky and Gagné (2020) introduced the Beliefs About Losing Control Inventory (BALCI), the first self-report tool for examining negative beliefs in the context of OCD. It yielded strong psychometric evidence, capturing three factors; negative beliefs about losing control over one’s thoughts, behaviour, and emotions (TBE; Factor 1), beliefs about the importance of staying in control (ISC; Factor 2), and beliefs about losing control over one’s body/bodily functions (BBF; Factor 3). This study aimed to adapt and validate the Beliefs About Losing Control Inventory (BALCI) for non-clinical Italian adults using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). A total of 327 participants were enrolled from two study phases, and most of the participants were females between the ages of 18 and 32. An EFA analysis along with a CFA was conducted using Mplus 7 software to assess the model fit for the adapted BALCI version. The results indicated that the BALCI Italian Version validated 21 items in three mentioned factors (χ2 = 459.671, χ2/df = 2.47, CFI = 0.93, TLI = 0.92, RMSEA = 0.06. The Italian version of BALCI demonstrated excellent scale score reliability with a McDonald's omega of .95, along with a test-retest correlation of .xxx; the These results underscore the BALCI Italian version trustworthiness for use by Italian academics and mental health practitioners.

Validating the Italian version of Beliefs About Losing Control Inventory: Assessing its Psychometric Properties

MIRZAEE, POORIA
2023/2024

Abstract

Abstract In the past years, the key role of cognitive aspects of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been investigated. When it comes to OCD it's crucial to explore the fear of losing control as a key element of thinking among several others. The existing experimental evidence largely indicates that beliefs play a role in either worsening or alleviating symptoms of OCD. Relatedly, Radomsky and Gagné (2020) introduced the Beliefs About Losing Control Inventory (BALCI), the first self-report tool for examining negative beliefs in the context of OCD. It yielded strong psychometric evidence, capturing three factors; negative beliefs about losing control over one’s thoughts, behaviour, and emotions (TBE; Factor 1), beliefs about the importance of staying in control (ISC; Factor 2), and beliefs about losing control over one’s body/bodily functions (BBF; Factor 3). This study aimed to adapt and validate the Beliefs About Losing Control Inventory (BALCI) for non-clinical Italian adults using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). A total of 327 participants were enrolled from two study phases, and most of the participants were females between the ages of 18 and 32. A CFA was conducted using Mplus 7 software to assess the model fit for the adapted BALCI version. The results indicated that the BALCI Italian Version validated 21 items in three mentioned factors (χ2 = 459.671, χ2/df = 2.47, CFI = 0.93, TLI = 0.92, RMSEA = 0.06. The Italian version of BALCI demonstrated excellent scale score reliability with a McDonald's omega of .95, along with a test-retest correlation of .xxx; the These results underscore the BALCI Italian version trustworthiness for use by Italian academics and mental health practitioners.
2023
Validating the Italian version of Beliefs About Losing Control Inventory: Assessing its Psychometric Properties
Abstract In the past years, the key role of cognitive aspects of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been investigated. When it comes to OCD it's crucial to explore the fear of losing control as a key element of thinking among several others. The existing experimental evidence largely indicates that beliefs play a role in either worsening or alleviating symptoms of OCD. Relatedly, Radomsky and Gagné (2020) introduced the Beliefs About Losing Control Inventory (BALCI), the first self-report tool for examining negative beliefs in the context of OCD. It yielded strong psychometric evidence, capturing three factors; negative beliefs about losing control over one’s thoughts, behaviour, and emotions (TBE; Factor 1), beliefs about the importance of staying in control (ISC; Factor 2), and beliefs about losing control over one’s body/bodily functions (BBF; Factor 3). This study aimed to adapt and validate the Beliefs About Losing Control Inventory (BALCI) for non-clinical Italian adults using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). A total of 327 participants were enrolled from two study phases, and most of the participants were females between the ages of 18 and 32. An EFA analysis along with a CFA was conducted using Mplus 7 software to assess the model fit for the adapted BALCI version. The results indicated that the BALCI Italian Version validated 21 items in three mentioned factors (χ2 = 459.671, χ2/df = 2.47, CFI = 0.93, TLI = 0.92, RMSEA = 0.06. The Italian version of BALCI demonstrated excellent scale score reliability with a McDonald's omega of .95, along with a test-retest correlation of .xxx; the These results underscore the BALCI Italian version trustworthiness for use by Italian academics and mental health practitioners.
OCD
CFA
losing control
scale validation
beliefs
NOVARA, CATERINA
Lauree magistrali
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