Dozier Mary E, Ayers Catherine R
Research Service, VA San Diego Healthcare System, United States.
San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, United States.
J Obsessive Compuls Relat Disord. 2014 Jul;3(3):220-227.
Few studies to date have studied the particular reasons endorsed by individuals with hoarding disorder (HD) for why they save or acquire certain objects. Understanding how reasons for saving and acquiring objects influence hoarding severity and the degree to which the relationship depends on gender or age differences can have implications for the treatment of HD. The current study looked at reasons for saving and acquiring in 84 individuals diagnosed with HD. Consideration of the usefulness of an object as a reason for saving was the most consistently uniquely predictive of all of the reasons examined for saving and acquisition when controlling for gender differences and other endorsed reasons. These results may suggest that targeting specific reasons for saving and acquiring may be an efficient way to reduce hoarding severity, specifically related to ideas of utility and waste.
迄今为止，很少有研究探讨囤积障碍（HD）患者认可的保存或获取某些物品的具体原因。了解保存和获取物品的原因如何影响囤积严重程度，以及这种关系在多大程度上取决于性别或年龄差异，可能对HD的治疗具有启示意义。当前的研究考察了84名被诊断为HD的个体保存和获取物品的原因。在控制性别差异和其他认可的原因后，将物品的有用性作为保存原因的考量，在所有考察的保存和获取原因中，始终是最独特的预测因素。这些结果可能表明，针对保存和获取物品的特定原因，可能是减轻囤积严重程度的有效方法，特别是与实用性和浪费观念相关的方面。
