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Further Support for Responsibility in Different Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Turkish Adolescents and Young Adults

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2008

Orçun Yorulmaz ,
Müjgan Altın  and
A. Nuray Karancı
Orçun Yorulmaz*
Affiliation:
Uludağ University, Bursa, Turkey
Müjgan Altın
Affiliation:
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
A. Nuray Karancı
Affiliation:
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
*
Reprint requests to Orçun Yorulmaz, Department of Psychology, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey. E-mail: orcuny@uludag.edu.tr
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Abstract

According to the cognitive model, an inflated sense of responsibility is an important cognitive mediator both in the development and maintenance of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Empirical findings assign differential roles to responsibility in different kinds of obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms. However, findings that suggested a different function for responsibility revealed the need for an operational definition of responsibility and its multi-factorial structure. Few studies have examined the role of responsibility in OC symptoms in adolescents. The present study therefore aimed to explore responsibility concerns and to evaluate the relationship between responsibility dimensions and obsessive-compulsive symptom subgroups in two samples of adolescents and university students in a developing non-Western country. The findings suggested that the Responsibility Attitude Scale had a bifactorial structure, responsibility being based on self-dangerousness and prevention. Adolescents reported more responsibility in prevention and self-dangerousness than university students. The results appear to contribute to the symptom differentiation of OC behaviour by highlighting the importance of both dimensions of responsibility for checking symptoms, responsibility based on danger prevention for cleaning and, finally, responsibility based on self-dangerousness for obsessive thinking. Replication with clinical samples and different methodologies are encouraged.

Keywords

Responsibilitycheckingcleaningobsessive-compulsive symptomsadolescents
Type
Research Article
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , October 2008 , pp. 605 - 617
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2008

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