Department of Psychology, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, Emniyet Mahallesi Abant 1 Cad. No:10/2D Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey.
BMC Psychiatry. 2020 Jul 7;20(1):356. doi: 10.1186/s12888-020-02766-y.
This study investigates the association of reassurance seeking with obsessive compulsive (OC) symptoms, dysfunctional beliefs, and negative emotions.
Reassurance Seeking Questionnaire, Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory, Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire, Trait Anger Expression Inventory, and Guilt Inventory were applied to 53 obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) patients and 591 non-clinical participants.
The results showed that the severity of the OC symptoms significantly predicted the carefulness of OCD patients during reassurance seeking, indicating increased carefulness during reassurance seeking as the severity of OC symptoms increased. Moreover, feelings of guilt increased with increasing intensity of reassurance seeking. In addition, carefulness during reassurance seeking significantly predicted the level of anxiety. Responsibility/threat estimation, perfectionism/need for certainty, and importance/control of thoughts significantly predicted the OC symptoms. Moreover, the dysfunctional beliefs directly associated with an increased need to seek reassurance from different sources and seek reassurance more carefully. In terms of mediational effect, the results revealed that the individuals who had distorted beliefs were more likely to have OC symptoms and, in turn, the OC symptoms increased carefulness during reassurance seeking. The analysis of the model test revealed mostly similar results to those obtained for the clinical sample.
The findings revealed a close relationship between OC symptoms and reassurance-seeking behaviors.
本研究旨在探讨寻求安慰与强迫观念（OC）症状、功能失调信念和负性情绪之间的关联。
采用寻求安慰问卷、强迫症量表、强迫信念问卷、特质愤怒表达量表和内疚量表对 53 名强迫症（OCD）患者和 591 名非临床参与者进行了调查。
结果表明，OC 症状的严重程度显著预测了 OCD 患者在寻求安慰时的谨慎程度，表明随着 OC 症状的加重，寻求安慰时的谨慎程度也会增加。此外，寻求安慰的程度与内疚感的增加呈正相关。此外，寻求安慰时的谨慎程度显著预测了焦虑水平。责任/威胁估计、完美主义/确定性需求和思想的重要性/控制显著预测了 OC 症状。此外，功能失调信念与从不同来源寻求安慰和更仔细地寻求安慰的需求直接相关。就中介效应而言，结果表明，有扭曲信念的个体更有可能出现 OC 症状，而 OC 症状又会增加寻求安慰时的谨慎程度。模型测试的分析得出了与临床样本相似的结果。
研究结果揭示了 OC 症状与寻求安慰行为之间的密切关系。
