title: Taboo thoughts and doubt/checking: a refinement of the factor structure for obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms.
abstract: The purpose of this report was to improve upon earlier factor analyses of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptom categories by minimizing the heterogeneity in the aggressive obsessions category. An exploratory factor analysis was conducted on data from 293 adults with primary OCD. The resulting five factors (Symmetry/Ordering, Hoarding, Doubt/Checking, Contamination/Cleaning, and Taboo Thoughts) are phenomenologically more homogeneous than prior category-based factors and are consistent with those derived in previous item-level analyses.
authors: Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02906, USA. Anthony_Pinto@brown.edu
authors: Anthony
authors: A
authors: Pinto
authors: Jane L
authors: JL
authors: Eisen
authors: Maria C
authors: MC
authors: Mancebo
authors: Benjamin D
authors: BD
authors: Greenberg
authors: Robert L
authors: RL
authors: Stout
authors: Steven A
authors: SA
authors: Rasmussen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015588:Observer Variation; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013239:Stereotyped Behavior; D013609:Taboo; D013850:Thinking