Personality dimensions in obsessive–compulsive disorder: Relation to clinical variables

Alonso, Pino; Menchón, José M.; Jimenez, S; Segalàs, J.; Mataix‐Cols, David; Jaurrieta, Núria; Labad, Javier; Vallejo, Julio; Cardoner, Narcı́s; Pujol, Jesús

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2006.06.003

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“…MOCIT was significantly and positively correlated with Neuroticism (r = .44), but only weakly and negatively related to Extraversion (r = -.10), suggesting that persons with high scores on MOCIT tend to be high in Neuroticism and somewhat low in Extraversion. Overall these patterns of interscale correlations were consistent with those found in the literature of the relationships between OCD and personality traits (Alonso et al, 2008;Fullana et al, 2004;LaSalleRicci et al, 2006;Rector et al, 2002;Samuels et al, 2000;Wu et al, 2006).…”

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Genetic and Environmental Covariations Among Obsessive–Compulsive Symptoms, Neuroticism, and Extraversion in South Korean Adolescent and Young Adult Twins

Hur¹

2009

Twin Res Hum Genet

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A growing literature suggests that personality traits may be endophenotype markers for psychiatric illnesses. Although the phenotypic relationships between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and high neuroticism and low extraversion have been well documented, underlying genetic and environmental contributions to these associations have not been explored previously. Five hundred and twenty-four monozygoitc (MZ) and 228 dizygotic (DZ) pairs of adolescent and young adult twins (aged 13-24 years) drawn from the South Korean Twin Registry completed the Maudsley Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (MOCI) and the Neuroticism and Extraversion scale of the Eysenck Personality Scale by mail. The total score of MOCI (MOCIT) was significantly and positively correlated with Neuroticism (r = .44), but only weakly and negatively related to Extraversion (r = -.10). A trivariate Cholesky model was applied to the data. The additive genetic correlations in the best-fitting model were .51 between Neuroticism and MOCIT and -.17 between Extraversion and MOCIT, suggesting that additive genetic factors that lead to high neuroticism and low extraversion overlap with those genetic factors influencing high OC symptoms. These findings add to the cumulative evidence of the shared genetic etiology for the associations between a personality profile of high neuroticism and low extraversion and mental illnesses.

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Genetic and Environmental Covariations Among Obsessive–Compulsive Symptoms, Neuroticism, and Extraversion in South Korean Adolescent and Young Adult Twins

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2009

Twin Res Hum Genet

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“…15,16 We could then speculate that the non-responsive group could have had higher scores as an increased sensitivity to aversive stimulation establishes the negative reinforcement value of rituals. However, the studies cited above compared OCD patients to normal volunteers or to depressed patients, while our study compared respondent to non-respondent OCD patients.…”

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“…[11][12][13][14][15][16] All of them have found distinct patterns of temperament and character in OCD patients compared with healthy controls. Consistently, in all these studies, OCD subjects displayed lower self-directedness and increased harm avoidance compared to controls.…”

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Personality traits and treatment outcome in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Corchs

Corregiari

Ferrão³

et al. 2008

Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.

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“…Studies regarding the temperament and character traits of OCD are not consistent in their results [33][34][35][36][37][38]. Some researchers have reported lower 'self-directedness [34,35,38], cooperativeness [33,35,39] or novelty seeking [33,35] scores, or higher reward dependence [36] scores in OCD subjects.…”

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“…Some researchers have reported lower 'self-directedness [34,35,38], cooperativeness [33,35,39] or novelty seeking [33,35] scores, or higher reward dependence [36] scores in OCD subjects. Results of the relationship between temperament and character profiles and OC symptom severity have not been informative like, lower SD [38,40] and higher HA [38] scores have been shown to correlate with OC symptom severity [38] however; this finding was not reproduced in a recent study [33]. The present study assessed the change in the TCI pattern of OCD patients before and after treatment.…”

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Temperament and Character Profile in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): A Pre and Post Intervention Analysis

Tiwari¹,

Ram²

2014

Int J Sch Cog Psychol

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Objective: The present study examines the pattern of changes in temperament and character profiles of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) patients following 8-20 weeks of treatment for obsessive compulsive symptoms (OC symptoms). Methodology:The study also investigated the relationship between the temperament and character pattern and the severity of OC symptoms. A sample of 52 patients who met DSM IV TR criteria was assessed using Temperament Character Inventory, Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale, Hamilton Depression rating scale and Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale. After baseline assessment of 52 OCD patients only 40 OCD patients, who complied with medication for 8-20 weeks were re-assessed using the same measures as a follow-up assessment.Result: Finding indicated that after treatment the patients showed significantly lower score on Harm Avoidance whereas Self Directedness and Cooperativeness was significantly poorer in comparison to normal subjects. Severity of OC symptoms was correlated with Self Directedness, and co morbid anxiety was correlated with high Harm Avoidance and low Cooperativeness. Conclusion:These findings suggest that temperament is more amenable to treatment than character dimensions of OCD patients.

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Personality dimensions in obsessive–compulsive disorder: Relation to clinical variables

Cited by 59 publications

References 34 publications

Genetic and Environmental Covariations Among Obsessive–Compulsive Symptoms, Neuroticism, and Extraversion in South Korean Adolescent and Young Adult Twins

Genetic and Environmental Covariations Among Obsessive–Compulsive Symptoms, Neuroticism, and Extraversion in South Korean Adolescent and Young Adult Twins

Personality traits and treatment outcome in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Temperament and Character Profile in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): A Pre and Post Intervention Analysis

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