TY - JOUR
T1 - Dysfunctional belief domains related to obsessive-compulsive disorder
T2 - A further examination of their dimensionality and specificity
AU - Belloch, Amparo
AU - Morillo, Carmen
AU - Luciano, Juan V.
AU - García-Soriano, Gemma
AU - Cabedo, Elena
AU - Carrió, Carmen
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was mainly supported by the SEJ2006/03893-PSIC grant from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Prof. Dr. Amparo Belloch, Main Researcher).
PY - 2010/5
Y1 - 2010/5
N2 - International consensus has been achieved on the existence of several dysfunctional beliefs underlying the development and/ or maintenance of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Nevertheless, questions such as the dimensionality of the belief domains and the existence of OCD-specific dysfunctional beliefs still remain inconclusive. The present paper addresses these topics through two different studies. Study 1: A series of confirmatory factor analyses (N= 573 non-clinical subjects) were carried out on the Obsessive Beliefs Spanish Inventory-Revised (OBSI-R), designed to assess dysfunctional beliefs hypothetically related to OCD. An eight-factor model emerged as the best factorial solution: responsibility, over-importance of thoughts, thought-action fusionlikelihood, thought action fusion-morality, importance of thought control, overestimation of threat, intolerance of uncertainty and perfectionism. Study 2: The OBSI-R and other symptom measures were administered to 75 OCD patients, 22 depressed patients, and 25 non-OCD anxious patients. Results indicated that, although OCD patients differed from their non-clinical counterparts on all of the OBSI-R subscales, no evidence of OCD-specificity emerged for any of the belief domains measured, as the OCD subjects did not differ from the other two clinical groups of patients.
AB - International consensus has been achieved on the existence of several dysfunctional beliefs underlying the development and/ or maintenance of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Nevertheless, questions such as the dimensionality of the belief domains and the existence of OCD-specific dysfunctional beliefs still remain inconclusive. The present paper addresses these topics through two different studies. Study 1: A series of confirmatory factor analyses (N= 573 non-clinical subjects) were carried out on the Obsessive Beliefs Spanish Inventory-Revised (OBSI-R), designed to assess dysfunctional beliefs hypothetically related to OCD. An eight-factor model emerged as the best factorial solution: responsibility, over-importance of thoughts, thought-action fusionlikelihood, thought action fusion-morality, importance of thought control, overestimation of threat, intolerance of uncertainty and perfectionism. Study 2: The OBSI-R and other symptom measures were administered to 75 OCD patients, 22 depressed patients, and 25 non-OCD anxious patients. Results indicated that, although OCD patients differed from their non-clinical counterparts on all of the OBSI-R subscales, no evidence of OCD-specificity emerged for any of the belief domains measured, as the OCD subjects did not differ from the other two clinical groups of patients.
KW - Compulsive disorder
KW - Dysfunctional beliefs
KW - OBQ
KW - Obsessive beliefs spanish inventory
KW - Obsi. Obsessive beliefs questionnaire
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U2 - 10.1017/S1138741600003930
DO - 10.1017/S1138741600003930
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77952631842
SN - 1138-7416
VL - 13
SP - 376
EP - 388
JO - Spanish Journal of Psychology
JF - Spanish Journal of Psychology
IS - 1
ER -