Received: 9 October 2018 Revised: 18 November 2018 Accepted: 5 December 2018 DOI: 10.1111/appy.12348 Offi cial journal of the bs_bs_banner BRIEF REPORT Pacifi c Rim College of Psychiatrists Validation of the Chinese version General Causality Orientation Scale‐Clinical Population and causality orientations assessing in major depressions Wei Lei1,2* | Kezhi Liu1,2* | Nian Li1,2 | Xuemei Liang1,2 | Bo Xiang1,2 | Chaohua Huang1,2 | Jin Zhang1,2 | Xiaojiao Zheng1,2 | Jing Chen1,2 1 Psychiatry Department, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China Abstract 2 Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Key Introduction: This study examined the psychometric properties of the Chinese ver- Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Luzhou, China sion General Causality Orientation Scale‐Clinical Population (GCOS‐CP) and assessed Correspondence Jing Chen, Psychiatry Department, Affiliated the causality orientations in patients with major depression disorders (MDDs). Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Method: The psychometric properties of the Chinese GCOS‐CP were tested in an No25, Taiping Street, Jiangyang District, Luzhou, Sichuan 646000, China. adults group (study 1). And then, the Chinese GCOS‐CP was given to individuals with Email:
[email protected] and without MDD (study 2). Funding information ‐ Sichuan Education Department, Grant/Award Results: The Chinese GCOS CP provided good reliability and validity. MDD showed Number: 18ZA0534; Humanity and Social lower autonomy but higher impersonal orientations relative to healthy controls.