scholarly journals How Health Anxiety Affected Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: The Mediation of Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and the Moderation of Pathological Personality Traits

2021 ◽  
pp. 111254
Author(s):  
Danping Hong ◽  
Yawen Zhu ◽  
Meng Yu
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Health Anxiety ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽  
Pathological Personality Traits

Prediction of dark personality traits and self-destruction based on emotion regulation among adolescent females

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-115
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Risky Behaviors ◽  
Adolescent Females ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽  
Academic Year

Background and Aims: Temperament is determined as a relatively constant, basic, and innate position that underlies and modifies the expression of activity, emotionality, and sociability among people. The current study aimed to investigate the prediction of dark personality traits and self-destruction based on emotion regulation among adolescent females. Materials and Methods: This correlational study included 250 adolescent females using a cluster sampling method in the academic year of 2018-19 in Shiraz, Iran. The participants were asked to complete Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, Dark Triad Scale, and Chronic Self-Destructiveness Scale. Results: The results of the regression analysis showed that emotion regulation with beta coefficients was able to predict significant and positive dark personality traits (0.25), narcissism (0.49), Machiavellianism (0.39), psychopathy (0.32), sadism (0.35), and self-destructiveness (0.49) (P<0.05). Conclusion: Directly targeted interventions to regulate emotion may be useful in addressing risky behaviors of adolescents with self-destructive and dark personality traits.

scholarly journals Suicidality in People With Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms or Personality Traits

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudy Bowen ◽  
Hiba Rahman ◽  
Lisa Yue Dong ◽  
Sara Khalaj ◽  
Marilyn Baetz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms

scholarly journals Emotional regulation in eating disorders and gambling disorder: A transdiagnostic approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucero Munguía ◽  
Susana Jiménez-Murcia ◽  
Roser Granero ◽  
Isabel Baenas ◽  
Zaida Agüera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Linear Relationship ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Gambling Disorder ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation

AbstractBackground and aimsDifficulties in Emotion Regulation (ER) are related to the etiology and maintenance of several psychological disorders, including Eating Disorders (ED) and Gambling Disorder (GD). This study explored the existence of latent empirical groups between both disorders, based on ER difficulties and considering a set of indicators of personality traits, the severity of the disorder, and psychopathological distress.MethodsThe sample included 1,288 female and male participants, diagnosed with ED (n = 906) and GD (n = 382). Two-step clustering was used for the empirical classification, while analysis of variance and chi-square tests were used for the comparison between the latent groups.ResultsThree empirical groups were identified, from the most disturbed ER profile (Subgroup 1) to the most functional (Subgroup 3). The ER state showed a linear relationship with the severity of each disorder and the psychopathological state. Different personality traits were found to be related to the level of emotion dysregulation.Discussion and conclusionIn this study, three distinct empirical groups based on ER were identified across ED and GD, suggesting that ER is a transdiagnostic construct. These findings may lead to the development of common treatment strategies and more tailored approaches.

scholarly journals Stress Influences the Effect of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms on Emotion Regulation

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sónia Ferreira ◽  
Beatriz Couto ◽  
Mafalda Sousa ◽  
Rita Vieira ◽  
Nuno Sousa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Current Therapy ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Psychometric Scales ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Stress Influences

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with emotion regulation impairments, namely the frequent use of maladaptive strategies such as suppression and the decreased use of reappraisal strategies. Additionally, these patients exhibit elevated stress levels. Since stress exposure affects emotion regulation abilities, stress might influence the relationship between obsessive-compulsive symptoms and emotion regulation. In this study, we explored the effects of stress and obsessive-compulsive symptoms on emotion regulation in a sample of healthy and OCD individuals. We used self-reported psychometric scales to measure stress levels, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and emotion reappraisal and suppression skills. We applied multiple regression and mediation analyses. Our results demonstrated that increased reappraisal scores were associated with higher suppression scores. Additionally, elevated stress values predicted increased scores for suppression and decreased scores for reappraisal. Furthermore, the reappraisal abilities resulted from a combination of a direct effect of obsessive-compulsive symptoms and an indirect effect of obsessive-compulsive symptoms mediated by stress. The reliance on suppression strategies and the difficulty in using reappraisal approaches are explained by stress levels and are not directly explained by obsessive-compulsive symptoms. This study highlights the necessity of targeting stress in current therapy-based treatments for OCD.

scholarly journals Compulsive Health-Related Internet Use and Cyberchondria

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
Yasser Khazaal ◽  
Anne Chatton ◽  
Lucien Rochat ◽  
Vincent Hede ◽  
Kirupamani Viswasam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Use ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Health Anxiety ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Severity Scale ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms ◽  
Adult Participants ◽  
Health Related

<b><i>Background:</i></b> Cyberchondria denotes excessive and repeated online health-related searches associated with an increase in health anxiety. Such searches persist in those with cyberchondria, despite the negative consequences, resembling a pattern of compulsive Internet use. <b><i>Objectives:</i></b> The aim of the present study was to assess compulsive health-related Internet use in relation to cyberchondria while controlling for related variables. <b><i>Method:</i></b> Adult participants (<i>N</i> = 749) were recruited from an online platform. They completed questionnaires assessing the severity of cyberchondria (via the Cyberchondria Severity Scale [CSS]), compulsive Internet use adapted for online health-related seeking (via the adapted Compulsive Internet Use Scale [CIUS]), and levels of intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety, as well as depressive, somatic, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. A logistic regression analysis was carried out to identify predictors of scores above a cutoff value on the CIUS, indicating compulsive health-related Internet use. <b><i>Results:</i></b> The regression output showed that only the CSS total score and sex made a unique, statistically significant contribution to the model, leading to the correct classification of 78.6% of the cases. Of the CSS subscales, compulsion and distress were the most strongly associated with compulsive health-related Internet use. <b><i>Conclusions:</i></b> The finding that the adapted CIUS scores are associated with cyberchondria indicates that cyberchondria has a compulsive component, at least in terms of health-related Internet use. It also suggests that compulsive health-related Internet use persists despite the distress associated with this activity. Males may engage in cyberchondria more compulsively than females. These findings have implications for research and clinical practice.

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