title: Perceived parental rearing behaviours, responsibility attitudes and life events as predictors of obsessive compulsive symptomatology: test of a cognitive model.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  It is important to investigate the role of cognitive, developmental and environmental factors in the development and maintenance of Obsessive Compulsive Symptomatology (OCS).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The main objective of this study was to examine the vulnerability factors of OCS in a non-clinical sample. On the basis of Salkovskis' cognitive model of OCD, the study aimed to investigate the role of perceived parental rearing behaviours, responsibility attitudes, and life events in predicting OCS. Furthermore, the mediator role of responsibility attitudes in the relationship between perceived parental rearing behaviours and OCS was examined. Finally, the specificity of these variables to OCS was evaluated by examining the relationship of the same variables with depression and trait anxiety.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 300 university students (M = 19.55±1.79) were administered the Padua Inventory-Washington State University Revision, Responsibility Attitudes Scale, s-EMBU (My memories of upbringing), Life Events Inventory for University Students, Beck Depression Inventory, and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait Form.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Regression analysis revealed that perceived mother overprotection, responsibility attitudes and life events significantly predicted OCS. Furthermore, responsibility attitudes mediated the relationship between perceived mother overprotection and OCS. The predictive role of perceived mother overprotection and the mediator role responsibility attitudes were OCS specific.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings of the present study supported that perceived mother over-protection as a developmental vulnerability factor significantly contributed to the explanation of a cognitive vulnerability factor (namely responsibility attitudes), and perceived maternal overprotection had its predictive role for OCS through responsibility attitudes.
authors.affiliation: Gazi University,Ankara,Turkey.
authors.forename: Bikem
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Haciomeroglu
authors.affiliation: Middle East Technical University,Ankara,Turkey.
authors.forename: A Nuray
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Karanci
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing; D003071:Cognition; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012307:Risk Factors; D012941:Social Responsibility; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D014421:Turkey; D055815:Young Adult