ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Addictive Disorders
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1535332
Validation of the Chinese Version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale for Pathological Gambling (PG-YBOCS) for individuals with Gambling Ddisorder in Mainland China
Provisionally accepted
Dongli Fan1Xiyuan Zhang2
Siyao Shi2Jingyang Liu2
Yicheng Wei2Ge Song2Yiyi Zhou2Yuanyuan Zhu3Jingyun Shi2Xingshi Cai2Gangliang Zhong2
Jiang Du2*- 1Fuyang Third People's Hospital, Fuyang, Jiangsu Province, China
- 2Shanghai Mental Health Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- 3Nanjing Brain Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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The escalating severity of gambling issues in China highlights the need for culturally adapted assessment tools. The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale for Pathological Gambling (PG-YBOCS) is recognized for its ability to assess both the severity and compulsive features of gambling disorder. Given its emphasis on the compulsive features of gambling disorder, this study aimed to validate the Chinese version (PG-YBOCS-C) in clinical assessment. The 10-item PG-YBOCS-C was developed through translation and expert review. A total of 116 individuals with gambling disorder were recruited. Reliability was assessed using Cronbach's α coefficient (0.958) and test-retest reliability (0.722). The content validity index was 0.912, with item-level indices ranging from 0.778 to 1.000. Bartlett's test of sphericity yielded X 2 = 1123.86, P<0.001, and the KMO measure was 0.93. Exploratory factor analysis identified a single principal component accounting for 72.8% of the variance.The reliability and validity of PG-YBOCS-C have been demonstrated, establishing it as a dependable tool for evaluating the severity of gambling symptoms in Chinese individuals.
Keywords: Yale-brown obsessive compulsive scale, gambling disorder, validity, Reliability, Pathological Gambling
Received: 27 Nov 2024; Accepted: 29 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Fan, Zhang, Shi, Liu, Wei, Song, Zhou, Zhu, Shi, Cai, Zhong and Du. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Jiang Du, Shanghai Mental Health Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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