Clarifying the thought-action fusion bias in obsessive-compulsive disorder
| Autor: | Richard J. McNally, S. Evelyn Stewart, Dianne M. Hezel, Bradley C. Riemann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050103 clinical psychology
05 social sciences behavioral disciplines and activities humanities Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology 0302 clinical medicine Action (philosophy) Obsessive compulsive mental disorders 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. 20:75-84 |
| ISSN: | 2211-3649 |
| Popis: | Studies indicate high levels of thought-action fusion (TAF) in OCD. The current study aimed to determine if people with OCD evaluate others’ thoughts the same way as their own, as existing measures do not test for this distinction. Forty-two non-anxious, 40 OCD, and 41 socially anxious participants completed self-report and behavioral measures of thought-action fusion. Findings indicated that self-report measures of TAF, but not behavioral ones, indicate that people with SAD as well as those with OCD evaluate their own thoughts as more significant/dangerous than they do others’ thoughts. Moreover, although the SAD and OCD groups had similarly elevated scores on the total self-report TAF Scale, analyses of subscales indicated that relative to the other groups, OCD participants had higher scores on the likelihood subscales of the measure. These results were partially supported by the behavioral measure of TAF as well. These findings have important implications for our understanding of the TAF bias in both OCD and other disorders. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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