Trauma type and obsessive-compulsive symptom domains: The unique relationship between indirectly experienced trauma and just right symptoms

Excessive responsibility has been proposed as a cognitive factor in obsessive-compulsive symptoms. In the present study the relationships of Salkovskis' measure of Responsibility Attitudes (RAS) (Salkovskis et al., 2000) with the total scale and the subscales of the PI-WSUR (Burns, Koertge, Formea, & Sternberger, 1996) measure of obsessive compulsive symptoms, as well as with a measure of depression (CES-D), were studied with a sample of 356 students (108 males and 248 females). As expected, the correlation between RAS and PI-WSUR was stronger than the correlation between RAS and CES-D, supporting the specific role of excessive responsibility in obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Among the subscales of PI-SWUR the strongest correlation of RAS was with Obsessional Thoughts About Harm to Self/Others (OTAHSO) and then with Checking. The OTAHSO was the only PI-WSUR subscale to show a significant partial correlation with RAS when other subscales and CES-D scores were taken into consideration. These results indicate that responsibility attitudes may play quite different roles in relation to different obsessive-compulsive symptom domains and that cognitive theory should take this more explicitly into account.

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Thought-Action Fusion as Predictors of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Dimensions

Psychiatry Investigation ◽

10.30773/pi.2020.0292 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (12) ◽

pp. 1226-1235

Author(s):

Ji Eun Kim ◽

Seung Jae Lee

Keyword(s):

Supporting Evidence ◽

Dysfunctional Beliefs ◽

Dimensional Approach ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Symptom Dimensions ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

Compulsive Symptom ◽

Symptom Domains ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Symptom ◽

Thought Action Fusion

Objective There have been several studies investigating the relationships between dysfunctional beliefs and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, studies about the relationships between dysfunctional beliefs, especially thought-action fusion (TAF), and OC symptom dimensions have been scarce. Therefore, this study examined to what extent and how TAF subcomponents account for unique variability in four OC symptom dimensions.Methods Sixty-five patients with OCD and 45 healthy controls aged between 18 and 30 years completed measures for OC symptom dimensions, OC symptoms, and dysfunctional beliefs such as TAF, trait-guilt, and inflated responsibility.Results Three facets of TAF were exclusively associated with two symptom domains, namely, responsibility for harm and unacceptable thoughts, and explained the additional but small amount of variance to predict these two domains. In particular, the likelihood-others TAF positively predicted the unacceptable thoughts domain, whereas the likelihood-self TAF negatively predicted the aforementioned domain. For OC symptoms measured by the OC Inventory, no TAF components predicted the corresponding obsessing and mental neutralizing symptoms.Conclusion This study provides supporting evidence that the three TAF subcomponents may be differently associated with certain OC symptom dimensions, and a dimensional approach may complement typical symptom-oriented OC measures.

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Obsessive–compulsive symptom dimensions in schizophrenia patients with comorbid obsessive–compulsive disorder

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.pnpbp.2009.05.008 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 33 (6) ◽

pp. 1009-1012 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Sarit Faragian ◽

Artashes Pashinian ◽

Camil Fuchs ◽

Michael Poyurovsky

Keyword(s):

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Symptom Dimensions ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

Compulsive Symptom ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Symptom

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Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Dimensions as Predictors of Compliance with and Response to Behaviour Therapy: Results from a Controlled Trial

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics ◽

10.1159/000064812 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 71 (5) ◽

pp. 255-262 ◽

Cited By ~ 272

Author(s):

David Mataix-Cols ◽

Isaac M. Marks ◽

John H. Greist ◽

Kenneth A. Kobak ◽

Lee Baer

Keyword(s):

Controlled Trial ◽

Behaviour Therapy ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Symptom Dimensions ◽

Compulsive Symptom ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Symptom

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Familial Predictors of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Dimensions (Contamination/Cleaning and Symmetry/Ordering) in a Nonclinical Sample

Journal of Clinical Psychology ◽

10.1002/jclp.21861 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 68 (12) ◽

pp. 1266-1275 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Joan Taberner ◽

Miquel A. Fullana ◽

Xavier Caseras ◽

Alberto Pertusa ◽

Arturo Bados ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Symptom Dimensions ◽

Compulsive Symptom ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Symptom ◽

Nonclinical Sample

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Sex differences in the association between obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions and diurnal cortisol patterns

Journal of Psychiatric Research ◽

10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.12.017 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 133 ◽

pp. 191-196

Author(s):

Javier Labad ◽

Cristian Sebastian Melia ◽

Cinto Segalàs ◽

Pino Alonso ◽

Neus Salvat-Pujol ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Sex Differences ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Diurnal Cortisol ◽

Symptom Dimensions ◽

Compulsive Symptom ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Symptom

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Are obsessive–compulsive symptom dimensions familial in nonclinical individuals?

Depression and Anxiety ◽

10.1002/da.20606 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 26 (10) ◽

pp. 902-908 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Joan Taberner ◽

Miquel A. Fullana ◽

Xavier Caseras ◽

Alberto Pertusa ◽

Arturo Bados ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Symptom Dimensions ◽

Compulsive Symptom ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Symptom

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Beyond Belief: Incremental Prediction of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Looming Vulnerability Illusions

Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy ◽

10.1891/088983907781494564 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 243-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

John H. Riskind ◽

Neil A. Rector

Keyword(s):

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽

Symptom Severity ◽

Cognitive Vulnerability ◽

Preliminary Evidence ◽

The Self ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

Compulsive Symptom ◽

Small Cohort ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Symptom

Cognitive models argue that obsessions and compulsions arise from distorted beliefs and exaggerated interpretations of intrusive thoughts. While these models have led to important advances, recent research has suggested the need to go beyond the factors the models identify. One new factor to consider may involve looming vulnerability, the production of dynamic mental scenarios of danger outcomes (e.g., contamination, harming, losing wanted possessions) as rushing through time and space and escalating in odds of harm for the self. Looming vulnerability is a different form of cognition that differs from belief factors because it concerns the process of anticipating noxious events as rapidly rising in risk rather than static beliefs about the final end states (e.g., responsibility, perfection). The present study tested looming vulnerability by examining a small cohort of 37 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Results provide strong preliminary evidence that looming vulnerability in OCD-related themes (e.g., contamination, hoarding, and pure obsessional) contributes significant and substantial variance to the prediction of obsessive compulsive symptom severity on the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale beyond the effects of beliefs and interpretations. Thus, looming vulnerability may represent a different form of cognitive vulnerability for the development and persistence of clinical obsessions that warrants further investigation.

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