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Investigation into the relationship between personality traits and OCD
1Department of Psychology, Warneford Hospital, Headington, Oxford, London, England.
Behaviour Research and Therapy
|May 1, 1995
Abstract:
In the light of recent research suggesting that obsessive-compulsive disorder is more likely to be associated with constellations of personality traits other than obsessive-compulsive personality traits, the present study was undertaken to explore this relationship further and to remove the possibly confounding effects of general pathology, anxiety and depression. By using a non-clinical sample and partialling out the effects of anxiety and depression, it was found, contrary to recent research, that specific obsessional symptoms were only related to the traits of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.