Fear of self and obsessionality: Development and validation of the Fear of Self Questionnaire

Aardema, Frederick; Moulding, Richard; Radomsky, Adam S.; Doron, Guy; Allamby, Jude; Souki, Eman

doi:10.1016/j.jocrd.2013.05.005

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“…Accordingly, it would appear that the content of an intrusion is related to how it may be interpreted [40]. This proposal has direct theoretical implications for the cognitive models of OCD, which maintains that it is the appraisal, not the content of intrusions that determines whether they become obsessions [10,17,41]. …”

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“…Ambivalence about moral self-worth may have stronger associations with particular OC subtypes or dimensions (e.g. obsessional subtypes with moral themes have been associated with covert compulsive behaviours such as praying and counting [10,17] but not necessarily with washing and cleaning [8]). Further, the current study has not examined whether ambivalence about moral self-worth forms a specific vulnerability to OCD.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Experimental research shows that self-worth increases while using neutralizing responses in response to unwanted intrusions [14]. Likewise, self-themes as being ‘dangerous' [15,16] and ‘feared' [17] have been implicated with OCD phenomena.…”

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Self-Based Concepts and Obsessive-Compulsive Phenomena

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Background/Aims: Using a cognitive framework, this paper examined self-perceptions as a vulnerability to phenomena in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Specifically, Guidano and Liotti's model of self-ambivalence (from 1983) and the notion of self-worth contingent upon moral standards were investigated as possible mechanisms to explain how individuals come to notice their unwanted intrusions. Method: Using an analogue framework, participants were first-year undergraduate psychology students (95 females, mean age = 22.49 years, SD = 7.96, and 25 males, mean age = 21.64 years, SD = 7.26) who were administered a battery of self-report questionnaires. Results: Results indicated that self-ambivalence moderated the relationship between high moral standards and obsessive-compulsive (OC) phenomena; individuals who had high moral standards and high self-ambivalence showed increased OC vulnerability. Conclusions: The findings suggest that ambivalence about moral self-worth may constitute a particular vulnerability to OC symptoms. Directions for future research are discussed and implications of the findings explored.

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“…IBT aims to (1) show the person how she/he uses a doubts and often imaginary narrative to support the hoarding behavior; (2) demonstrate how becoming immersed in a narrative of illusionary possibilities exerts a powerful influence on affect and behavior; (3) demonstrate that it is the narrative alone, and not the facts and other external considerations that dictate the strength of the illusions; (4) relate the specific hoarding doubts to the general theme of a feared self (a self the person fears becoming) [40] which often connects to attachment insecurities and other anxieties about dispensing with objects.…”

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Background and aims: Non-pharmaceutic approaches to the treatment of hoarding disorder (HD) use interventions based of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Inference-based therapy (IBT) focuses on the doubts which form the basis of preoccupation in HD and deals with ego syntonic values in hoarding by exposing how the hoarding-self sabotages the authentic self. The objective was to establish if the IBT would lead to the clinically significant decrease of hoarding symptoms.

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“…Zudem weist auch der ICQ-EV einen starken Zusammenhang mit Zwangssymptomen auf, selbst wenn allgemeine Belastung und andere kognitive Bereiche inklusive der Überschätzung von Bedrohungen kontrolliert werden [Wu et al, 2009;Aardema et al, 2013].…”

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