Avoidance and behavioural flexibility in obsessive compulsive disorder

Hassoulas, Athanasios, McHugh, Louise and Reed, Phil 2014. Avoidance and behavioural flexibility in obsessive compulsive disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders 28 (2) , pp. 148-153. 10.1016/j.janxdis.2013.05.002

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Abstract

Three experiments measured differences in responding between participants scoring either higher or lower on obsessive-compulsive trait measures. A Sidman avoidance procedure was employed in Experiment 1, in which participants were required to identify an avoidance response that postponed an aversive event, and noted that higher scorers maintained this response more successfully. Experiments 2 and 3 involved an operant variability procedure to differentiate between variable and rigid responding among participants demonstrating high versus low obsessive-compulsive traits, and revealed no differential sensitivity to rigid responding between the groups. The results provide insight into the nature of obsessive-compulsive behavioural traits, suggesting that avoidance but not stereotypy is primary in OCD.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0887-6185
Date of Acceptance:	10 May 2013
Last Modified:	15 Jul 2020 10:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/131927

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