Stressful life events and material deprivation in hoarding disorder
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Traumatic life events and early material deprivation have been identified as potential environmental risk factors for the development of pathological hoarding behavior, but the evidence so far is preliminary and confounded by the presence of comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This study retrospectively examined the occurrence of traumatic/stressful life events and material deprivation in four well-characterized groups: hoarding disorder without comorbid OCD (HD; n=24), hoarding disorder with comorbid OCD (HD+OCD; n=20), OCD without hoarding symptoms (OCD; n=17), and non-clinical controls (Control; n=20). Participants completed clinician and self-administered measures of hoarding, OCD, depression, psychological adjustment, and traumatic experience. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken to assess the temporal relation between traumatic/stressful life events and the onset and worsening of hoarding symptoms, and to determine the level of material deprivation. Although rates of post-traumatic stress disorder were comparable across all three clinical groups, hoarders (regardless of the presence of comorbid OCD) reported greater exposure to a range of traumatic and stressful life events compared to the two non-hoarding groups. Results remained unchanged after controlling for age, gender, education level, depression, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. The total number of traumatic life events correlated significantly with the severity of hoarding but not of obsessive-…
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- Authors
- Landau, D., Iervolino, A. C., Pertusa, A., Santo, S., Singh, S., & Mataix-Cols, D.
- Affiliations
- King's College London (GB)
- Venue
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-03
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 192-202
- ISSN
- 0887-6185 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1993389123
- Cited by
- 167
- References
- 11
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- FWCI
- 7.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Keywords
- hoarding disorder, traumatic life events, life events, material deprivation, obsessive-compulsive disorder, comorbidities, post-traumatic stress disorder, environmental risk factors, childhood onset
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Anxiety Disorders, Compulsive Behavior, Female, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Life Change Events, Male, Maternal Deprivation, Middle Aged, Obsessive Behavior, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Surveys and Questionnaires, Severity of Illness Index, Stress, Psychological, Comorbidity, Age of Onset
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