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Responsibility and obsessive-compulsive disorder: an experimental test.

Arnoud Arntz1, Marisol Voncken, Ank C A Goosen

  • 1Department of Medical, Clinical and Experimental Psychology, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, NL-6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. arnoud.arntz@mp.unimaas.nl

Behaviour Research and Therapy
|May 16, 2006
PubMed
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This study demonstrates that perceived responsibility causally influences obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms. Manipulating responsibility levels in participants confirmed its role in OCD, particularly in triggering OCD-like experiences and checking behaviors.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychiatry
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors.
  • The role of responsibility in OCD pathogenesis remains debated, with some theories suggesting it's a core cognitive factor.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To experimentally investigate the causal relationship between responsibility and OCD symptoms.
  • To determine if manipulating perceived responsibility influences OCD-like experiences and behaviors.

Main Methods:

  • An experiment was conducted involving participants with OCD, non-OCD anxiety controls, and healthy controls.
  • Responsibility was manipulated by assigning participants to either a high or low responsibility (LoRes) condition during a classification task.

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  • Subjective ratings of danger and responsibility, along with OCD-like experiences and checking behaviors, were measured.

    • Main Results:

    • The responsibility manipulation was successful, as indicated by subjective ratings.
    • OCD patients in the high responsibility (HiRes) condition reported significantly higher subjective OCD-like experiences and checking behaviors compared to all other groups.
    • While the Padua Inventory's checking subscale correlated with subjective ratings in OCD patients under HiRes, it did not correlate with actual checking behaviors.

    Conclusions:

    • The findings provide experimental evidence supporting the hypothesis that responsibility plays a causal role in the development and maintenance of OCD.
    • Perceived responsibility is a significant factor contributing to OCD symptomatology, including subjective distress and behavioral compulsions.