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Severity of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms is Related to Self-Directedness Character Trait in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Source :
- CNS Spectrums. 9:607-612
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2004.
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Abstract
- Objective:The present study examined the psychobiological Temperament and Character model of personality on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients, as well as the relation of temperament and/or character dimensions on the severity of obsessive-compubive symptoms.Methods:Fifty-four subjects diagnosed with OCD, were assessed with the Temperament and Character Inventory, the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive scale and the Hamilton Rating Scales for depression and anxiety.Results:Compared with controls, OCD subjects displayed increased harm avoidance and lower self-directedness and cooperativeness. Low self-directedness and high Hamilton depression scores were associated with increased severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms.Conclusions:The Temperament and Character profile of OCD patients characterized in the present stud personality model and can be linked to some of their behavioral features. Furthermore, our data provides support of the influence that some personality traits may have on the severity of OCD symptoms.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Character
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
medicine.medical_specialty
Personality Inventory
Psychometrics
media_common.quotation_subject
Comorbidity
Personality Assessment
Risk Assessment
Self-directedness
medicine
Humans
Personality
Temperament
Psychiatry
Internal-External Control
media_common
Depressive Disorder
Cooperativeness
Rating scales for depression
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Psychiatry and Mental health
Early Diagnosis
Harm avoidance
Anxiety
Female
Temperament and Character Inventory
Neurology (clinical)
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21656509 and 10928529
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- CNS Spectrums
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a026af5182f1e6e9221069fd3105fbcd