“…Moreover, the inflated sense of responsibility in OCD was further supported with the findings from nonWestern countries, such as Iran (Ghassemzadeh, Bolhari, Birashk, & Salavati, 2005) and Turkey (Altın & Gençöz, 2007;Yorulmaz, Karanci, & Tekok-Kılıç, 2002;Yorulmaz, Yilmaz, & Gençöz, 2004). These findings consistently supported that individuals with OCD consistently strive for gaining personal control to prevent supposed harm or threat to self/others, and the inflated sense of responsibility for avoiding and preventing harm may result in a strong desire to gain control over the perceived threat (Moulding, Kyrios, & Doron, 2007).…”