Arntz Arnoud, Voncken Marisol, Goosen Ank C A
Department of Medical, Clinical and Experimental Psychology, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, NL-6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Behav Res Ther. 2007 Mar;45(3):425-35. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2006.03.016. Epub 2006 May 12.
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.
为了检验责任在强迫症（OCD）中的因果地位，进行了一项实验，其中对责任进行了实验性操纵。强迫症患者、非强迫症焦虑对照组和非患者在高责任或低责任（LoRes）条件下执行分类任务。与危险和责任相关的主观评分表明操纵是成功的。在高责任（HiRes）条件下，强迫症患者的主观强迫症样体验和检查行为高于所有其他组。尽管帕多瓦量表的检查子量表与高责任条件下强迫症患者的主观评分相关，但它与检查行为无关。结果证实了责任在强迫症中起因果作用的假设。
