Dysfunctional belief-based obsessive-compulsive disorder subgroups
| Autor: | Melissa M. Norberg, John E. Calamari, Neil A. Rector, Bradley C. Riemann, Robyn J. Cohen, Kate Szacun-Shimizu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Male Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Psychometrics Culture Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Dysfunctional family medicine.disease_cause Disease cluster Delusions Developmental psychology Obsessive compulsive mental disorders medicine Cluster Analysis Humans Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Cognition Perfectionism (psychology) Middle Aged medicine.disease humanities Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Female Psychology Anxiety disorder |
| Zdroj: | Behaviour research and therapy. 44(9) |
| ISSN: | 0005-7967 |
| Popis: | An attempt was made to identify obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) subgroups based on differences in OCD related beliefs. OCD patients ( N = 3 6 7 ) were assessed with the Obsessional-Beliefs Questionnaire prior to treatment. Individuals’ scores on measures of inflated personal responsibility and the tendency to overestimate threat, perfectionism and intolerance of uncertainty, and over-importance and over-control of thoughts were subjected to cluster analysis. Support for both a simple and complex subgroup model was found (2-subgroup and 5-subgroup taxonomies). A low-beliefs subgroup was identified in both taxonomies. The low-beliefs subgroups reported scores on belief measures equivalent to scores reported for non-OCD comparison groups in earlier studies. Additional analyses were conducted to determine relations between belief-based and symptom subgroups. Significant relationships were found (e.g., Symmetry symptom subgroup membership was associated with membership in the Perfectionism/Certainty beliefs subgroup), although the shared variance was modest. Implications for understanding OCD heterogeneity and for cognitive theory are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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