LEOBON Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Scale

Pestaño, Leonard Dean

Bonilla, Melissa Mae

The scale was developed out of the need of a more culturally valid scale of OCPD.

There is a lack of OCPD scales as compared

to scales of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

Rationale

The conceptual framework of the tool was created via the assessment of the characteristics of a person with an obsessive-compulsive disorder.

composed of four subscalespreoccupation with details, rules, lists, order, organization or schedule

Perfectionism

extreme dedication to work and efficiency

and need for control and emotional withdrawal.

Framework

The CPT will be used injunction with

the developed OCPD scale to affirm the character of those

with OCPD using colors or patterns. The administration of the two tests allows the researchers

to capture the personality of the

respondents using a projective and pencil-and-paper test.

the Color Pyramid Test (CPT)

This OCPD Scale and Color Pyramid Test are very

practical to use today. Anyone of any age could take the test. The syntax and use

of words in the test are very simple, even undergraduates and children could take this.

Feasibility

The Color Pyramid Test (CPT) is “easy to administer, and is applicable over a wide range of ages, educational

and cultural background.” These tests are very convenient to use and could be easily reproduced.

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) Scale

The questionnaire is composed of thirty-six subjective

questions and it uses a four level Likert Scale: Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree and Strongly Disagree. The Neutral or Neither Agree/ Disagree of the

said scale was eliminated to easily filter nonpolar answers.

The examinee will encircle the numbers 4, 3, 2, or 1, his/her answer corresponds to the question. After which, the

researchers will tally the scores. Anyone who has a score above 60% (87 raw score) would automatically be qualified for OCPD.

How the Tests are administered

Color Pyramid Test (CP-T)

On a white paper, pyramids with fifteen fields are illustrated. There are 15 colored chips of

the 10 colors—black, gray, white, brown, red, yellow, blue, violet, green, and orange.

The examiner will let the examinee place those chips on the fields in any way they prefer. Colors may be

repeated. They will make three pyramids—good-looking, better looking and best looking. The examiners

will jot down the colors for each pyramid and interpret it afterwards.

Actual Test

There were no major striking responses when the tests were conducted.

The examinees smiled, laughed, and giggledwhen they read the OCPD scale saying that they were this and that. Some people were shocked when the researchers told them about their scores which would yield OC tendencies thus

acknowledging that they may have restricted or restrained mannerisms in some aspects of their personality.

Observations

Comparing the two tests, the examiners took more time in the CPT because some changed colors from time to time and some would imagine what would be the output first. It took them about 15 minutes maximum when they answered the two tests—Color Pyramid Test and the OCPD Scale.

To further validate the OCPD scale, they used a Color Pyramid Test (CPT). Based from the interpretation of the colors of the Color Pyramid Test (CPT), the colors

blue, orange, green and brownare the colors likely associated with OCPD.

The researchers assume that there should be a favorable amount of responses using those colors as

well as garnering a moderate amount of correlation among those colors and scores in the OCPD scale.

Validity

Based from the table, those who possess an obsessive-compulsive character scored highly in the

primary colors: red, blue, green

Results

Frequency of colors of the respondents who scored high in the OCPDscale

N Minimum

Maximum

Sum Mean Std.Deviation

Yellow 22 0 15 111 5.05 4.413

Orange 22 0 11 82 3.73 3.165

Red 22 0 20 174 7.91 6.604

Blue 22 0 23 152 6.91 5.681

Green 22 0 13 155 7.05 3.897

White 22 0 14 50 2.27 3.654

Gray 22 0 5 17 .77 1.445

Black 22 0 20 118 5.36 6.107

Brown 22 0 9 25 1.14 2.210

Purple 22 0 15 106 4.82 4.521

Valid N(listwise) 22

High frequencies of colors green and bluewould tell that a person is very logical and reasonable. They are considered to be rigid and also by the book types of person. They have logical ways, paths, and flows on fixing and scheduling things. They would want an overwhelming need for order, would most likely unwilling to yield their responsibilities to others and would have a strong sense of righteousness about the ways things “should be done”.

Surprisingly, the correlation among the colors used in the pyramid test and scores in the OCPD scale only garnered weak to moderate correlations. The highest

among these are black, blue, and brown.

Colors with the most highest correlation

Black Blue Brown Score

Black

Pearson Correlation 1 -.415* .389* .219

Sig. (2-tailed) .023 .034 .244

N 30 30 30 30

Blue

Pearson Correlation -.415* 1 -.093 .177

Sig. (2-tailed) .023 .626 .348

N 30 30 30 30

Brown

Pearson Correlation .389* -.093 1 .297

Sig. (2-tailed) .034 .626 .112

N 30 30 30 30

Score

Pearson Correlation .219 .177 .297 1

Sig. (2-tailed) .244 .348 .112

N 30 30 30 30

The higher the color black would indicate that there is an increase in escaping affective or stimulating

situations which affirm the subscale of emotional withdrawal in the OCPD scale.

The color brown has positive moderate correlation with the scores in the OCPD scale, although it acquired the highest value of correlation among all colors. The increase of brown indicates that there is high energy, higher resistance and high levels of productivity.

It is significant, because it validates the subscale of extreme dedication of work and efficiency due to the interpretation of brown as an indicator of productivity. In

another study, they found a significant increase in the use of brown color for those identified with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality disorder.

However, since blue is one of the frequent colors appearing for those who scored high in the OCPD and blue has one of the highest correlations among all colors, although only third behind black and brown, the researchers has come up with the conclusion that people who scored high in the OCPD scale would choose blue and higher scores in the OCPD scale were associated with the increased percentage of the color blue.

This indicates that people with high score in the OCPD scale suffer from suppression of feelings and emotions,

resulting in an over controlling attitude, which seems to be associated with feelings of inferiority, dissatisfaction and ambivalence.

Reliability coefficients are reported ranging from .047 to 0.81 with a mean of 0.61 for the color pyramid test. The reliability coefficient of the color pyramid test seemed no better or worse than other personality assessment.

Reliability

The researchers decided to pursue this test because it will be of great contribution in our society today. OCPD scales are very limited and restricted that’s why the researchers developed a precise scale.

The researchers would also like to combine a paper-pen test & a projective test to make a more valid and stable study.

This research will provide norm referencesand could be applied to everyone and anyone. If further improved, this test would confirm who has OCPD tendencies in our society today.

Significance of the Study / Applications

Since the researchers were able to establish a

correlation among the colors, brown and blue, and respondents who scored highly on

the OCPD scale and blue as one of the frequently appearing color, the

incremental validity of the color

pyramid test has increased and as an effect, the color pyramid test could now be used to predict or determine OCPD via its correlated colors, blue and brown.

Incremental validity is the gain in

validity resulting from adding new predictors to an

existing selection system. The CPT maybe preferred in determining OCPD because of its feasibility.

Factors that may influence the color preference

during the test may include: color availability, time limit/s or restriction, mood, or for the sake of doing so.

Contaminants