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Perceived Parental Rearing Behaviours, Responsibility Attitudes and Life Events as Predictors of Obsessive Compulsive Symptomatology: Test of a Cognitive Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2013

Bikem Haciomeroglu  and
A. Nuray Karanci
Bikem Haciomeroglu*
Affiliation:
Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
A. Nuray Karanci
Affiliation:
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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Reprint requests to Bikem Haciomeroglu, Department of Psychology, Gazi University, Teknikokullar-Ankara 06500, Turkey. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Background: It is important to investigate the role of cognitive, developmental and environmental factors in the development and maintenance of Obsessive Compulsive Symptomatology (OCS). Aims: The main objective of this study was to examine the vulnerability factors of OCS in a non-clinical sample. On the basis of Salkovskis’ cognitive model of OCD, the study aimed to investigate the role of perceived parental rearing behaviours, responsibility attitudes, and life events in predicting OCS. Furthermore, the mediator role of responsibility attitudes in the relationship between perceived parental rearing behaviours and OCS was examined. Finally, the specificity of these variables to OCS was evaluated by examining the relationship of the same variables with depression and trait anxiety. Method: A total of 300 university students (M = 19.55±1.79) were administered the Padua Inventory-Washington State University Revision, Responsibility Attitudes Scale, s-EMBU (My memories of upbringing), Life Events Inventory for University Students, Beck Depression Inventory, and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait Form. Results: Regression analysis revealed that perceived mother overprotection, responsibility attitudes and life events significantly predicted OCS. Furthermore, responsibility attitudes mediated the relationship between perceived mother overprotection and OCS. The predictive role of perceived mother overprotection and the mediator role responsibility attitudes were OCS specific. Conclusions: The findings of the present study supported that perceived mother over-protection as a developmental vulnerability factor significantly contributed to the explanation of a cognitive vulnerability factor (namely responsibility attitudes), and perceived maternal overprotection had its predictive role for OCS through responsibility attitudes.

Keywords

Obsessive compulsive symptomsvulnerability factorsperceived parental rearing behavioursresponsibility attitudeslife events
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Research Article
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 42 , Issue 6 , November 2014 , pp. 641 - 652
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2013 

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