Dysphrenia. 2012;3:144-8.
Personality characteristics in the patients of obsessive compulsive disorder.
Kumar K, Kumar R, Kaur G, Sindhu B, Sachin.
Abstract
Background: The relationship between obsessional personality traits and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) has long been the subject of debate. Although clinicians have asserted for nearly a hundred years that such a relationship exists, empirical investigations have failed to provide consistent support; however, none of these empirical investigations have undertaken analyses that control for the effect of mood variables. Employing a non-clinical sample, some psychologists found that when mood variables are taken into account, a unique relationship between obsessional traits and obsessional symptoms emerges.
Material and methods: A replication was undertaken on a large group of individuals with OCD.
Results: After the effects of depression and anxiety were removed from a correlational analysis, obsessional symptoms were found to be significantly associated with obsessional and passive aggressive traits.
Conclusion: OCD was not associated with any other grouping of traits as specified in the revised third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R) Axis II classification system.
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