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Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder traits and personality dimensions in parents of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Rosa Calvo ,
Luisa Lázaro ,
Josefina Castro-Fornieles ,
Elena Font ,
Elena Moreno  and
J. Toro
Rosa Calvo*
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic Universitari, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBER), C/ Villarroel, 170, 08036Barcelona, Spain
Luisa Lázaro
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic Universitari, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBER), C/ Villarroel, 170, 08036Barcelona, Spain IDIBAPS, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Josefina Castro-Fornieles
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic Universitari, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBER), C/ Villarroel, 170, 08036Barcelona, Spain IDIBAPS, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Elena Font
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic Universitari, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBER), C/ Villarroel, 170, 08036Barcelona, Spain
Elena Moreno
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic Universitari, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBER), C/ Villarroel, 170, 08036Barcelona, Spain
J. Toro
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic Universitari, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBER), C/ Villarroel, 170, 08036Barcelona, Spain IDIBAPS, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
*
*Corresponding author. Tel.: +34 93 227 99 74; fax: +34 93 227 91 71. E-mail address: [email protected] (R. Calvo).
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Abstract

Purpose

To compare patterns of temperament and character and the prevalence of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) and OCPD traits in parents of children with OCD and parents of healthy controls.

Methods

TCI and SCID-II were administered to 63 parents of 32 children with OCD and 63 parents of age- and sex-matched controls with no psychiatric diagnosis. Interviewers were not blind to proband status. Personality dimension scores and frequencies of OCPD criteria in both groups were compared after excluding parents with a diagnosis of OCD. Relationships between TCI dimensions and OCPD symptoms in parents and the clinical characteristics of OCD children were also studied.

Results

Parents of OCD children presented significantly higher scores in harm avoidance and lower scores in self-directedness, cooperativeness and reward dependence than parents of healthy children. A higher incidence of OCPD was found in parents of probands (p < 0.02). Hoarding, perfectionism and preoccupation with details were significantly more frequent in parents of OCD children. Counting, ordering and cleaning compulsions in OCD children predicted elevated odds of perfectionism and rigidity in their parents.

Conclusions

The existence of the dimensional personality profile associated with OCD in parents of children with OCD and the higher number of OCPD criteria in these parents in comparison to parents of healthy children highlight the importance of the role of personality factors in familial OCD.

Keywords

Obsessive-compulsive disorderObsessive-compulsive personality disorderPersonality dimensionsParents
Type
Original article
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European Psychiatry , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , April 2009 , pp. 201 - 206
Copyright
Copyright © Elsevier Masson SAS 2009

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