Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Science, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey.
Clin Psychol Psychother. 2010 Mar-Apr;17(2):110-21. doi: 10.1002/cpp.642.
Recent findings have suggested some potential psychological vulnerability factors for development of obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms, including cognitive factors of appraisal and thought control, religiosity, self-esteem and personality characteristics such as neuroticism. Studies demonstrating these associations usually come from Western cultures, but there may be cultural differences relevant to these vulnerability factors and OC symptoms. The present study examined the relationship between putative vulnerability factors and OC symptoms by comparing non-clinical samples from Turkey and Canada, two countries with quite different cultural characteristics. The findings revealed some common correlates such as neuroticism and certain types of metacognition, including appraisals of responsibility/threat estimation and perfectionism/need for certainty, as well as thought-action fusion. However, culture-specific factors were also indicated in the type of thought control participants used. For OC disorder symptoms, Turkish participants were more likely to utilize worry and thought suppression, while Canadian participants tended to use self-punishment more frequently. The association with common factors supports the cross-cultural validity of some factors, whereas unique factors suggest cultural features that may be operative in cognitive processes relevant to OC symptoms.
最近的研究结果表明，一些潜在的心理脆弱因素可能导致强迫观念和强迫行为（OC）症状的出现，包括评价和思维控制的认知因素、宗教信仰、自尊以及神经质等人格特征。这些关联的研究通常来自西方文化，但对于这些脆弱因素和 OC 症状可能存在文化差异。本研究通过比较来自土耳其和加拿大的非临床样本，检验了这些脆弱因素与 OC 症状之间的关系，这两个国家具有截然不同的文化特征。研究结果表明，神经质和某些类型的元认知（包括对责任/威胁的评价和完美主义/确定性的需求）以及思维-行动融合等存在一些共同的相关性。然而，参与者使用的思维控制类型也表明存在特定于文化的因素。对于 OC 障碍症状，土耳其参与者更可能使用担忧和思维抑制，而加拿大参与者则更倾向于频繁地自我惩罚。这些共同因素的关联支持了一些因素的跨文化有效性，而独特因素则表明在与 OC 症状相关的认知过程中可能存在文化特征。
