The ‘obsessional’: on the psychological classification of obsessional character traits and symptoms*

A Family Study of Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

“…5 There has been a long-standing clinical impression that OCD symptoms may emerge as neurotic manifestations in individuals with OCPD. 33 We hypothesized that the presence of OCPD distinguishes a subgroup of cases of OCD with a higher risk of OCD in their relatives. However, the results do not substantiate this hypothesis: there was no difference in the familial risk of OCD based on the presence of OCPD in the case probands.…”

'Cleanliness is Next to Godliness': A further look

“…However, one of these studies, Lewis (study one: 1999), is a further analysis of data reported in Lewis and Joseph (1994). Maltby (1995) administered the Obsessional Symptom Scale from the Sandler-Hazari Obsessionality Inventory (Sandler & Hazari, 1960) alongside a measure of frequency of church attendance among samples of English (n ϭ 172) and US adults (n ϭ 164). For both the English and US sample, no significant associations were found between scores on the Obsessional Symptom Scale and frequency of church attendance (English males r ϭ .18, p Ͼ .05, females r ϭ .16, p Ͼ .05; US males r ϭ -.31, p Ͼ .05, females r ϭ -.22, p Ͼ .05).…”

“…These results are in accordance with the second conclusion reported by . Maltby (1997) administered the Obsessional Personality Trait Scale from the Sandler-Hazari Obsessionality Inventory (Sandler & Hazari, 1960), the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity (Francis & Stubbs, 1987) and the Religious Puritanism Scale of the Wilson-Patterson Attitude Inventory (Wilson, 1975) among a sample of 178 UK undergraduate students. For the total sample, significant associations were found between scores on the Obsessional Personality Trait Scale and the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity (r ϭ .22, p Ͻ .01) and the Religious Puritanism Scale (r ϭ .36, p Ͻ .01).…”

“…These results are in accordance with the first conclusion reported by . Maltby (1999a) administered the Obsessional Symptom Scale from the Sandler-Hazari Obsessionality Inventory (Sandler & Hazari, 1960), along with a measure of frequency of church attendance among a sample of English, US and Northern Irish adults (n ϭ 574). For the total sample, no significant association was found between Downloaded by [University of Otago] at 11:06 03 January 2015…”

“…The correlational results are in accordance with the second conclusion reported by ; however, the results of the post hoc analysis are not. Maltby (1999b) administered the Sandler-Hazari Obsessionality Inventory (Sandler & Hazari, 1960) including both the Obsessional Symptom Scale and the Obsessional Personality Trait Scale alongside a measure of religious orientation (an amended version of the Age-Universal I-E Scale; Gorsuch & Venable, 1983;Maltby & Lewis, 1996), alongside measures of frequency of church attendance and personal prayer among a sample of UK and the Republic of Ireland adults (n ϭ 1040). For the total sample, a significant association was found between scores on the Obsessional Symptom Scale and the Extrinsic Scale (r ϭ .18, p Ͻ .001).…”