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An investigation into the role of attachment insecurities in obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
- Source :
- British Journal of Guidance & Counselling; Oct2018, Vol. 46 Issue 5, p566-581, 16p, 1 Diagram, 4 Charts, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- The paper discusses the associations between adult attachment and OCD symptoms in light of current cognitive-behavioural theories of OCD. The role of attachment system in OCD has been increasingly recognised. The aim of this paper was to investigate and evidence for direct and indirect relations between attachment insecurities, obsessional beliefs and OCD symptoms. Data were collected from a sample of university students (N = 334) in a cross-sectional research design. Adjusting for age, sex, income, paternal education and maternal education, attachment anxiety and avoidance in combination with obsessional beliefs (responsibility/threat estimation, perfectionism/certainty and importance/control of thoughts) were regressed onto obssessionality using logistic regression analysis. One-way MANOVA comparisons of obsessionality and obsessive beliefs were run across four attachment styles. Finally, the affect regulation model of attachment theory was refined and tested in relation to OCD symptomatology. Attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance significantly contributed to severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms. More specifically, respondents with fearful and preoccupied attachment styles reported greater scores on obsessive-compulsive symptomatology and obsessional beliefs. Using a structural modelling approach, we found responsibility/threat estimation significantly contributed to obsessional symptomatology via attachment anxiety and avoidance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANALYSIS of variance
ANXIETY
ATTACHMENT behavior
AVOIDANCE (Psychology)
COLLEGE students
STATISTICAL correlation
MULTIVARIATE analysis
OBSESSIVE-compulsive disorder
QUESTIONNAIRES
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
STATISTICS
LOGISTIC regression analysis
DATA analysis
MULTIPLE regression analysis
BEHAVIORAL research
BEHAVIOR disorders
CROSS-sectional method
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
ONE-way analysis of variance
PSYCHOLOGICAL factors
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03069885
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 133199665
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2016.1262533