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Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder traits and personality dimensions in parents of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Source :
- European Psychiatry. 24:201-206
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2009.
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Abstract
- PurposeTo compare patterns of temperament and character and the prevalence of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) and OCPD traits in parents of children with OCD and parents of healthy controls.MethodsTCI and SCID-II were administered to 63 parents of 32 children with OCD and 63 parents of age- and sex-matched controls with no psychiatric diagnosis. Interviewers were not blind to proband status. Personality dimension scores and frequencies of OCPD criteria in both groups were compared after excluding parents with a diagnosis of OCD. Relationships between TCI dimensions and OCPD symptoms in parents and the clinical characteristics of OCD children were also studied.ResultsParents of OCD children presented significantly higher scores in harm avoidance and lower scores in self-directedness, cooperativeness and reward dependence than parents of healthy children. A higher incidence of OCPD was found in parents of probands (p < 0.02). Hoarding, perfectionism and preoccupation with details were significantly more frequent in parents of OCD children. Counting, ordering and cleaning compulsions in OCD children predicted elevated odds of perfectionism and rigidity in their parents.ConclusionsThe existence of the dimensional personality profile associated with OCD in parents of children with OCD and the higher number of OCPD criteria in these parents in comparison to parents of healthy children highlight the importance of the role of personality factors in familial OCD.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Parents
Proband
Character
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Personality Inventory
Compulsive Personality Disorder
media_common.quotation_subject
Comorbidity
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Child of Impaired Parents
Surveys and Questionnaires
mental disorders
Prevalence
medicine
Humans
Personality
030212 general & internal medicine
Child
Temperament
Psychiatry
media_common
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Cooperativeness
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder
030227 psychiatry
Psychiatry and Mental health
Reward dependence
Harm avoidance
Female
Psychology
Anxiety disorder
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17783585 and 09249338
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Psychiatry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3fb80974f9c2f3768621a6da074dbd59