title: Relationships between cognitive appraisals of adolescents with OCD and their mothers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our aim was to investigate cognitive models of OCD via the influence of mothers' cognitive appraisals on children's cognitions and OCD symptoms.
  
  
  METHODS
  Our sample consisted of 21 adolescents with OCD, their mothers and 27 parent-child dyads for control group without OCD. Subjects with OCD and their mothers were administered The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), The Thought-Action Fusion Scale (TAFS), The White Bear Suppression Inventory (WBSI), The Padua Inventory-Revised (PI-R) and The Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity (PIOS).
  
  
  RESULTS
  While the BDI (t=2.18, p<0.05) and TAF Morality (t=2.18, p<0.05) scores of the mothers of OCD subjects were significantly higher than the mothers of control subjects, the comparisons for the PI, TAF likelihood and PIOS scores of groups were not significant. Intradyadic correlation revealed significant relationships for PI-Rumination, PI-Checking and WBSI scales between the scores of parent and child in OCD dyads, (respectively, r=0.49, P=0.11; r=0.37, P=0.045; and r=0.47, P=0.014). There was no significant relationship in the control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our results partially supported that mothers' cognitive appraisals are associated with the cognitive appraisal of adolescents. A cognitive intradyadic interaction between mother and child might be more likely in the presence of OCD in adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, Turkey. Electronic address: tayyibkadak@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Muhammed Tayyib
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Kadak
authors.affiliation: Clinical Psychology,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Diyarbakır Child Hospital, Diyarbakır, Turkey.
authors.forename: Fuat
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Balsak
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Katip Çelebi University, İzmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Lutfullah
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Besiroglu
authors.affiliation: Clinical Psychology, Faculty of art and Science, Department of Psychology, Muş Alpaslan University, Muş, Turkey.
authors.forename: Cihat
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Çelik
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory