Obsessive–Compulsive Personality Traits in Youth with Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

Abstract

While interest in the relationship between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and obsessive compulsive personality disorder has increased, there are currently no studies that have examined the presence of obsessive compulsive personality traits (OCPTs) in youth. The current study sought to determine the latent factors and psychometric properties of a modified version of the Childhood Retrospective Perfectionism Questionnaire (CHIRP) and examine the correlates of specific OCPTs (e.g., rigidity, perfectionism) in youth with OCD. Participants included 96 treatment-seeking youth diagnosed with primary OCD (and a parent). Parents and youth completed measures of OCPTs, OCD severity, depression, and disability. A confirmatory factor analysis of the modified CHIRP resulted in a two-factor model: perfectionism and preoccupation with details. The CHIRP and its subscales demonstrated acceptable internal consistency and preliminary evidence for convergent and divergent validity. Obsessive compulsive traits in youth were also found to be associated with the checking, symmetry and contamination symptom dimensions.

Personality disorder traits in young adults with subclinical obsessive-compulsive symptoms: Not just traits related to obsessive- compulsive personality

“…This fueled the debate about the nature of the link between OCD and OCPD. Researchers suggested that obsessive-compulsive personality traits and OCD may exist along a continuum (Mathews, Jang, Hami, & Stein, 2004;Pinto, Greene, Storch, & Simpson, 2015;Park, Storch, Pinto, & Lewin, 2016). In contrast, other studies indicated that OCDP comorbidity might be rather considered as a marker of OCD severity (Lochner et al, 2011;Wetterneck et al, 2011), or that the comorbidity of OCD with OCPD could be a specific subtype of OCD (Garyfallos et al, 2010).…”

The Overcontrol in Youth Checklist (OCYC): Behavioral and Neural Validation of a Parent-Report of Child Overcontrol in Early Childhood

“…Overcontrol is evident across the lifespan and measures for adolescents and adults similarly tap into the construct of overcontrol. The Childhood Retrospective Perfectionism Questionnaire (CHIRP) [45] has been adapted to children and adolescents age 7-17 [58] and assesses perfectionism and preoccupation with details while the Pathological Obsessive Compulsive Personality Scale (POPS) [59] assesses emotional overcontrol, rigidity and perfectionism in adults. The current study developmentally extends the assessment of overcontrol and related constructs downward by validating the first parent-reported assessment in early childhood.…”

The Role of Perfectionism in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

“…Soreni et al reported that the perfectionism scores measured by a self-reported scale were positively correlated with the severity of OCD symptoms in children and adolescents, furthering evidence of the relationship between OCD symptoms and perfectionism in youth [14]. Similarly, another study found that perfectionism in youth were associated with the checking, symmetry and contamination symptom dimensions, which are all OCD symptoms [15]. These two studies added evidence that perfectionism is correlated with OCD symptoms.…”