Are obsessive-compulsive symptoms impulsive, compulsive or both?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The relationships between obsessive-compulsive symptoms and distinct forms of impulsivity and compulsivity are unclear. Such examination would be relevant in terms of how best to classify psychiatric disorders and in understanding candidate 'traits' that extend across a continuum between normalcy and clinical disorders.

Method

515 young adults (aged 18-29years) completed the Padua Inventory and undertook detailed clinical and neurocognitive assessments. Relationships between obsessive-compulsive symptoms and distinct types of impulsivity and compulsivity were evaluated using linear regression modeling.

Results

Obsessive-Compulsive symptoms were significantly predicted by female gender, lower quality of life, psychiatric disorders in general (but not impulse

SUBMITTER: Chamberlain SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5330431 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature