Study of psychometric properties and factorial structure of the Beck Cognitive Insight Scale(BCIS) in a nonclinical iranian sample

Cognitive insight is a complex and multidimentional concept. The clinical measurements of insight have focused primarily on patients’ unawareness of their having a mental disorder and of their need for treatment. Modern approaches have focused on some of the cognitive processes involved in patients’re-evaluation of their anomalous experiences and of their specific misinterpretations. The aim of this study was the examination of factor structure of the Beck Cognitive Insight Scale (BCIS) in a nonclinical iranian sample. For this purpose، 476 university students، completed the Beck Cognitive Insight Scale (BCIS). The data were analyzed by LISREL and SPSS softwares. The results showed that 2 main factors: Self-reflectiveness and Self-certainty which had been revealed primarily by Beck and his colleagues (2004) have been obtained as independent subscales in this research too. The results provided tentative support for the factor structure of the BCIS، and suggest that the BCIS is a valid measure to use in a non-clinical population.