Exploring the Possibility of Shared Familial Diathesis for Personality in OCD Probands

Abstract

The present study aims to probe into the status of the big five personality factors in the OCD probands and their first degree relatives (FDR) viz a viz community controls and also look into the association of the big five factors with symptom severity and obsessive personality traits. Fifty dyads of probands and FDR and community controls matched on the basis of age, sex and education were assessed on NEO Five Factor Inventory, Yale Brown Obsession Compulsion Scale, Beck Depression Inventory and Leyton Obsessional Inventory to fulfill the aims of the study. The findings reveal higher neuroticism and lower extroversion and conscientiousness in the OCD group as compared to controls, endorsement of greater conscientiousness among the FDR as compared to the case-probands, with Agreeableness and Conscientiousness emerging as predictors associated with obsessive symptoms among OCD probands.

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“…This might explain the observed lack of a relationship between agreeableness with EXD. However, agreeableness was negatively related to OC symptoms, which agree with the results of Tarafder and Mukhopadhyay, who assume that low agreeableness may nurture obsessive symptoms [ 77 ]. This finding is supported by the interpersonal difficulties in OCD individuals [ 78 , 79 ].…”