Abstract
Article history: Received August 25, 2012 Received in revised format 25 September 2012 Accepted 4 October 2012 Available online October 5 2012 The purpose of this study is to compare thought – action fusion and anxiety sensitivity among girls and boys adolescents having obsessive–compulsive symptoms in clinical and nonclinical extent. The survey selects 385 high school students in city of Esfahan, Iran and distributes a questionnaire among them. All questions are designed in Likert scale and participants are divided into two groups of with and without OCD. The results show that there is a significant and positive difference in thought – action fusion and anxiety sensitivity among girls and boys adolescents having or symptoms in clinical and nonclinical l extent (P<0.01). © 2012 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Highlights
During the past few years, there has been growing interest on learning more about obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD) and thought–action fusion (TAF)
Muris et al (2001) investigated thought– action fusion (TAF) in a large sample of normal adolescents. They asked the sample participants to complete the TAF Questionnaire for Adolescents (TAFQ–A) and scaled measuring trait anxiety, symptoms of obsessive–compulsive disorder, other anxiety disorders, and depression. Their results indicated that the TAFQ–A was a reliable instrument for evaluating two dimensions of TAF, viz. According to their results, symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and generalized anxiety remained substantially associated with TAF
There is a positive relationship among teenagers between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and thought– action fusion (TAF) in clinical and nonclinical extent
Summary
During the past few years, there has been growing interest on learning more about obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD) and thought–action fusion (TAF). Essau et al (2010), for instance, investigated the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the German translation of the Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (CASI) They did a survey among a total of 1292 adolescents and analyzed the results using the Schmid-Leiman. Schmidt et al (2010) explained that evidence recommends that anxiety sensitivity (AS) predicts subsequent development of anxiety symptoms and panic attacks and clinical syndromes in adult samples. They implemented a study to detect whether AS could act as a vulnerability factor in the pathogenesis of anxiety symptoms among youth in early adolescence (ages 9–13). Their results recommended that males and females differ on these various AS dimensions in different ways consistent with sex impact socialization practices
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