Threats to moral self-perceptions trigger obsessive compulsive contamination-related behavioral tendencies
| Autor: | Mario Mikulincer, Guy Doron, Dar Sar-El |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Anxiety Morals Developmental psychology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Obsessive compulsive Perception Repetition Priming medicine Humans media_common Depression Middle Aged Morality Self Concept humanities Affect Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Mood Phobic Disorders Female medicine.symptom Psychology Priming (psychology) Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 43:884-890 |
| ISSN: | 0005-7916 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jbtep.2012.01.002 |
| Popis: | Background and objectives Obsessive compulsive (OC) phenomena such as contamination fears may lead to significant impairment in daily functioning. In this research, we examined whether threat to moral self-perceptions can trigger contamination-related behavioral tendencies. Method Three experiments examined the influence of subtle priming of morality-related information on contamination-related behavioral tendencies. Results Subtle suggestions of incompetence in the morality self-domain led to heightened OC-related behavioral tendencies. These effects were specific to self-relevant (versus other-relevant), negative (versus positive) information about the morality domain (versus a morality-irrelevant domain). Findings were not related to pre-existing variations in self-esteem, stress, anxiety, or depression, and were not explained by mood fluctuations. Limitations Our studies were conducted with non-clinical samples. Conclusions Self-sensitivities in the moral domain may be causally linked with contamination-related concerns. Treatments addressing such sensitivities may prove useful when treating obsessive compulsive phenomena. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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