Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry ( IF 2.662 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2020.101571 Debbie M Warman 1
Background and objectives
The present study investigated decision-making strategies about and evaluations of intrusive thoughts in OCD presented in hypothetical targets in vignettes in a non-clinical population. It was expected participants would be hastier in their decisions for violent and sexual thoughts than checking and contamination thoughts and find those thoughts more credible. In addition, it was expected that hastier decision-making would be related to poorer evaluation of the targets. It was further expected that higher OC traits would be related to collecting fewer data.
Methods
Participants (N = 84) read four vignettes, two detailing a target with taboo intrusive thoughts and two detailing a target with non-taboo intrusive thoughts. Participants engaged in decision-making tasks about the targets before making decisions about the validity of the fears and rating their thoughts about the target.
Results
There was a relationship between data gathering and evaluations of the targets, but only for targets with taboo thoughts - requesting fewer data was associated with believing that the violent and sexual thoughts were true and evaluating them more negatively. Participants with higher OC traits gathered fewer data before deciding on three of the four tasks.
Limitations
The sample was non-clinical and homogenous; stimuli may have been unbalanced across vignettes.
Conclusions
Reasoning about and attitudes about taboo intrusive thoughts appear to be considerably related.
中文翻译:
关于侵入性思想的决策:与对它们的态度的关系。
背景和目标
本研究调查了非临床人群中小插曲中假设目标中出现的强迫症侵入性思想的决策策略和评估。预计参与者会比检查和污染想法更仓促地做出暴力和性想法的决定,并发现这些想法更可信。此外,预计较仓促的决策将与较差的目标评估有关。进一步预期较高的 OC 性状将与收集较少的数据有关。
方法
参与者 ( N = 84) 阅读了四个小插曲,其中两个详细描述了一个带有禁忌侵入性想法的目标,两个详细描述了一个具有非禁忌侵入性想法的目标。参与者在做出关于恐惧的有效性的决定并评价他们对目标的看法之前,先参与关于目标的决策任务。
结果
数据收集和目标评估之间存在关系,但仅适用于具有禁忌思想的目标——要求较少的数据与相信暴力和性思想是真实的并对它们进行更负面的评估有关。具有较高 OC 特征的参与者在决定四项任务中的三项之前收集的数据较少。
限制
样本是非临床和均质的;小插曲之间的刺激可能是不平衡的。
结论
对禁忌侵入性想法的推理和态度似乎有相当大的相关性。