objective: the psychometric properties and factor structure of the persian padua inventory washington state university revision (pi-wsur), a measure of obsessive- compulsive phenomena, was examined in a non-clinical sample of 348 iranian university students. method: the pi-wsur was translated into persian, and its back translation was controlled by the author inventory. a pilot study based on c...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) are both defined by excessive negatively-valenced cognitions. Although obsessional thoughts are considered essential to OCD and perseverative worry is considered essential to GAD, these excessive cognitions have been found to co-occur in both disorders. Accordingly, a common diathesis may influence the emergence of exces...

OBJECTIVE The psychometric properties and factor structure of the Persian Padua Inventory Washington State University Revision (PI-WSUR), a measure of obsessive- compulsive phenomena, was examined in a non-clinical sample of 348 Iranian university students. METHOD The PI-WSUR was translated into Persian, and its back translation was controlled by the author inventory. A pilot study based on c...

OBJECTIVE The Revised Obsessive Intrusion Inventory (ROII) is a 52-item scale that evaluates obsessional intrusive thoughts. The aim of the present study was to validate a short, 20-item Korean version of the ROII (ROII-20). METHODS Of the 1125 participants who completed the ROII-20, 895 participants completed the scale to examine the factor structure of the scale. A subgroup of these partici...

Cognitive-behavioral theories suggest that the development of neutralizing is crucial in the development and persistence of obsessional problems (OCD). Twenty-nine patients with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., American Psychiatric Association, 1994) diagnosis of OCD were randomly allocated to 2 conditions. Both listened to repeated recorded presentations of the...

aim and background: some of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) patients believe that their unpleasant thoughts can influence the external events. the aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between the contents of thought-action fusion and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in patients with ocd. methods and materials: in this cross-sectional correlative study 60 ocd patients selected b...

Obsessions and compulsions are mental experiences with a compelling quality which persistently intrude into consciousness. Although recognized by the patient as an abnormal and irrational product of his own mind, and resisted by him, he is incapable of expelling them. They may take the form of thoughts, images, fears, urges, desires, or acts. An obsessional illness is one where such symptoms do...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The cognitive-behavioural perspective on obsessions recognizes that certain cultural experiences such as adherence to religious beliefs about the importance of maintaining strict mental control might increase the propensity for obsessional symptoms via the adoption of faulty appraisals and beliefs about the unacceptability and control of unwanted intrusive thoughts. Fe...

The development of behaviour therapy for OCD and its evolution into cognitive behaviour therapy is described, highlighting the importance of a crucial series of experiments conducted by Rachman and colleagues in the mid-1970s. More recently, developments in cognitive theory suggest that the key to understanding obsessional problems lies in the way in which intrusive thoughts, images, impulses a...