title: Territoriality and obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
abstract: We proposed a relationship between territoriality and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms and derived and tested several hypotheses. We predicted that territoriality could be adequately assessed by a new self-report measure, that a nonspurious and significant relationship exists between territoriality and OC symptoms and disorder, that territoriality would serve as a risk for the future increase of OC symptoms, and that OC disorder (OCD) patients would manifest their territoriality needs by choosing to sit farther from their therapists than non-OCD patients. Results from four studies on nonpatient and patient samples were consistent with our preliminary conceptualization, which deserves continued development and research attention.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306-1270, USA. joiner@psy.fsu.edu
authors.forename: T E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Joiner
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sachs-Ericsson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013731:Territoriality