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Karina Wahl1, Andrea Ertle, Antje Bohne
1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Luebeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-23538, Luebeck, Germany. karina.wahl@psychiatrie.uk-sh.de
Anxiety, Stress, and Coping
|April 29, 2010
Summary
This study reveals a link between a ruminative response style and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms. Rumination, a thinking pattern, was associated with increased OC symptom severity in non-clinical samples.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Psychiatry
Background:
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) research traditionally focuses on the content of obsessional thoughts.
- Cognitive processes and thinking styles in OCD remain under-investigated.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the relationship between a ruminative response style and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptomatology.
- To investigate shared processual features between rumination and obsessional thinking.
Main Methods:
- Two non-clinical samples (N=261 and N=211) completed validated questionnaires.
- Measures included the Ruminative Response Scale, Padua-Inventory (Revised), and Beck Depression Inventory.
Main Results:
- A positive correlation was found between rumination tendency and OC symptom severity.
- This association remained significant even after controlling for depression.
- Obsessive rumination was particularly linked to the ruminative response style.
Conclusions:
- A ruminative response style shares common processual features with obsessive rumination.
- Understanding this interaction may clarify cognitive vulnerability factors in OCD.
- Findings can expand existing cognitive and metacognitive models of OCD.
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