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JOURNAL OF OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE AND RELATED DISORDERS
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 306-315Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jocrd.2013.05.005
Keywords
Fear of Self Questionnaire; OCD; Self-themes; Ambivalence; Obsessive beliefs; Inferential confusion
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- Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) [111261]
- Quebec Health Research Fund (Fonds de la recherche en sante du Quebec)
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Obsessions - particularly those directly relating to causing harm - often contain or imply evaluative dimensions about the self, reflecting a fear as to who the person might be - or might become. Following from research indicating that such beliefs are relevant to OCD, and the wider literature in social psychology regarding 'feared' or 'undesired' self-guides, the current study describes the development and validation of a new questionnaire-the Fear of Self Questionnaire, in 8- and 20-item versions. The questionnaire was piloted in two non-clinical samples (n=258; n=292). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported the unidimensionality of the measure. The questionnaire showed a strong internal inconsistency, and good divergent and convergent validity, including strong relationships to obsessional symptoms and with other processes implicated in cognitive models of OCD (e.g. obsessive beliefs, inferential confusion). Implications are discussed. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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