Relationships between worry, obsessive-compulsive symptoms and meta-cognitive beliefs.
The present study had two principal aims. First, the overlap between the revised Padua Inventory (PI-WSUR) a measure of obsessive-compulsive symptoms (Burns et al., 1996) and worry was assessed. Second, the relationship between meta-cognitive beliefs, proneness to pathological worry and obsessive-compulsive symptoms was explored when controlling for the interdependency of worry and obsessive-compulsive measures. The results indicate that whilst the PI-WSUR shows reduced overlap with the Penn State Worry Questionnaire, there are still problematic levels of overlap with a more content-based measure of worry. Results of multiple regression analyses demonstrated that specific sets of meta-cognitive beliefs were associated with worry proneness and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. The present data are consistent with recent formulations of generalized anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Manchester, UK. adrian.wells@man.ac.uk
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D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000592:standards*; D012044:Regression Analysis