Maladaptive appraisals and intrusive thoughts associated with obsessive compulsive disorder: A semiidiographic approach.

This project investigated the metacognitive strategies used to appraise obsessive thoughts employed by individuals with different anxiety symptoms. Two hundred eighty-seven undergraduate students completed two repertory grids and three anxiety scales. The repertory grids respectively examined the appraisal process of intrusive thoughts both from the perspective of the rater and the rater's imagined average person. Variables quantified from the rep grid related to the construal process of raters' own intrusions, failed to demonstrate robust differences between OCD, non-OCD anxious, and non-anxious individuals. However, it appears that anxious individuals, not just those with OCD, use metacognitive strategies to suppress rigid constructions under perceived social evaluation. Future studies may wish to use related grid variables to explore the relation between obsessions and social anxiety.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2004

Author dc:creator

• Hutchinson, Geoffrey

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sewell, Kenneth W.
• Barnhart, Joe
• Neumann, Craig S.
• Riggs, Shelley

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
• Anxiety.
• Metacognition.
• obsessive compulsive intrusions
• maladaptive appraisals
• repertory grids
• intrusive thoughts
• anxiety

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Hutchinson, Geoffrey T.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 56780362
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4605/
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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