Reliability,Validity, and Cut Scores of the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) for Chinese |
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| Authors: | Catherine So-kum Tang Anise M S Wu Joe Y C Tang Elsie C W Yan |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, AS4, Level 2, 9 Arts Link, Singapore, 117570, Singapore;(2) Department of Psychology, University of Macau, Macau, China;(3) The Caritas Addicted Gamblers Counseling Center, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, China;(4) Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong, Pokfu- lam Road, Hong Kong, China |
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| Abstract: | We examined the reliability, validity, and classification accuracy of the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) when adopted for
use in Chinese. The DSM-IV criteria for pathological gambling served as the standard against which the classification accuracy
of the SOGS was tested. A total of 283 Chinese adults in the community and 94 Chinese treatment-seeking gamblers were recruited.
The internal reliability of the SOGS was satisfactory for the general sample and acceptable for the gambling sample. The SOGS
was correlated with the DSM-IV criteria items as well as psychosocial and gambling-related problems. Relative to the DSM-IV
criteria, the SOGS tended to overestimate the number of pathological gamblers in both samples. In general, we were relatively
confident that individuals were not pathological gamblers if the SOGS scores were between 0 and 4 and were pathological gamblers
if the SOGS were between 11 and 20. There was about 50–50 chance of being pathological gamblers if the SOGS scores were between
8 and 10. However, the probability of individuals being pathological gamblers was about 0.30 if the SOGS scores were between
5 and 7. We proposed a SOGS cut score of 8 to screen for probable pathological gambling in Chinese societies. |
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