Erectile dysfunction (ED) and premature ejaculation (PE) are two forms of male sexual disorder with both psychological and physical features. While their cognitive, attentional, and affective components have been investigated separately, there is a lack of knowledge about the role played by cognitive attentional syndrome in their onset and maintenance. The aim of the present study was to invest...

Background: Obsessive patients are distressed by intrusive thoughts, which are related to unreal threats. These patients feel that they are responsible for harming themselves and others. While controlling worry and meta-cognitive beliefs, the present study aimed at comparing the responsibility attitudes in obsessive compulsive patients with those in normal subjects to determine whether the diff...

ôbjective: previous studies have suggested that anxiety disorders are more prevalent among women than men. the purpose of this study was to compare the metacognitive perspective of generalized ânxiety disorder (gâd) in females with males. methods: â cross sectional study was conducted on the high school girls and boys who have been affected by gâd. the sample consisted of 100 high school studen...

The Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44 (OBQ-44), a self-report measure, was developed by the Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions Working Group (OCCWG) to assess beliefs considered relevant in the etiology and maintenance of obsessions and compulsions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Persian language version of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire (POBQ-44...

During the past 30 years, experimental psychopathologists have conducted many studies aiming to elucidate the cognitive abnormalities that may figure in the etiology and maintenance of OCD. In this paper, we review research on both dysfunctional beliefs and cognitive deficits in OCD, as findings from both traditional self-report and information-processing approaches provide distinct sources of ...