Responsibility and obsessive–compulsive disorder: An experimental test
Abstract
To test the causal status of responsibility in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), an experiment was executed in which responsibility was experimentally manipulated. OCD patients, non-OCD anxiety controls, and non-patients executed a classification task in either a high or a low responsibility (LoRes) condition. Subjective ratings related to danger and responsibility indicated that the manipulation was successful. Subjective OCD-like experiences and checking behaviors were higher in OCD patients in the high responsibility (HiRes) condition than in all other groups. Although the checking subscale of the Padua Inventory correlated with subjective ratings in the OCD patients in the HiRes condition, it was not associated with checking behaviors. The results confirm the hypothesis that responsibility plays a causal role in OCD.
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The role of proneness to inflated responsibility and fear of guilt in the development and maintenance of OCD has been well documented.
“Indeed, the role of proneness to inflated responsibility and fear of guilt in the development and maintenance of OCD has been well documented (Arntz et al., 2007; Ladouceur et al., 1995; Mancini et al., 2004; Mancini & Gangemi, 2004; Melli et al., 2017; Rachman, 1993; Salkovskis, 1985; Shafran et al., 1996; Shapiro & Stewart, 2011; Steketee et al., 1991).”
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- Authors
- Arntz, A., Voncken, M., & Goosen, A. C. A.
- Affiliations
- Maastricht University (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Arntz, Arnoud
- Venue
- Behaviour Research and Therapy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007-03
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 425-435
- ISSN
- 0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1981733401
- Cited by
- 140
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 6.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Behaviour Research and Therapy (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- obsessive-compulsive disorder, responsibility, checking behavior, danger perception, anxiety, Padua Inventory, classification tasks
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Analysis of Variance, Anxiety Disorders, Dangerous Behavior, Discrimination, Psychological, Female, Guilt, Humans, Male, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Phobic Disorders, Psychological Theory, Psychometrics, Reference Values, Social Responsibility, Case-Control Studies, Principal Component Analysis
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