Are responsibility attitudes related to obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schoolchildren?

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Iounn Magnúsdóttir, Jakob Smári

Abstract

In spite of a growth in cognitive conceptualizations of obsessive-compulsive symptoms, relatively little has been done to extend such concepts to childhood. This study investigated the relationship between responsibility attitudes and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in normal children. A measure of responsibility attitudes in children was constructed on the basis of Salkovskis' Responsibility Attitudes Scale. This measure (Responsibility Attitudes Scale for Children) was administered together with the Leyton Obsessive Inventory Child Version and the Children's Depression Inventory to a sample of two hundred and two 10-14-year-old schoolchildren in Iceland. The responsibility measure correlated moderately and similarly with the Leyton Obsessive Inventory Child Version and the Children's Depression Inventory. In a hierarchical regression analysis predicting Leyton Obsessive Inventory Child Version scores, age and gender were entered in the equation first, followed by Children's Depression Inventory scores and, finally, Responsibility Attitudes Scale for Children scores. It was shown that Responsibility Attitudes Scale for Children scores added significantly to the prediction of Leyton Obsessive Inventory Child Version over and abov...Continue Reading

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Apr 19, 2011·Journal of Anxiety Disorders·Lidewij H WoltersElse de Haan
Jan 21, 2014·Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy·Meredith E ColesJacob A Nota
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