Abstract
Thought-Action Fusion (TAF) refers to the tendency to assume incorrect casual relationship between ones own thoughts and external reality, in witch, thoughts and actions are treated as equivalents. This construct is presence to development and maintenance of many psychological d isorders. The Aim o f p resent study is comparison TAF and its levels include moral and likelihood TAF, among Obsessive-Co mpulsive Disorder (OCD),Major Depression and normal groups. Thus three groups included 150 persons were selected by available sampling method in private and governmental psychiatric centers in Ardabil city, and then, they responded to Beck Depression Inventory, Padua Inventory and TAF scale. Data was analyzed using MANOVA. Results revealed that, there is significant differences between OCD and Major Depression groups with normal group in mo ral TAF(p <./.1), and likelihood TAF(p<./.1), but, there is no significant differences between OCD group and Major Depression group in moral TAF and likelihood TAF. The results indicated that, moral and likelihood TAF had equal levels in OCD and Major Depression Disorder, thus they could not differentiate OCD fro m Major Depression Disorder.
Highlights
Thought-Action Fusion (TAF) refers to the belief that thoughts and actions are inextricably linked[1]
The results of this study indicate that, does not exist significant differences between patients with obsessive compulsive disorder and major depression disorder in TAF, but in comparison major depression disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder patients with norma l group, can be seen significant differences in in the trend of amount between them
This finding is somewhat consistent with research Abramowit z and his colleagues[19]; Shafran and her colleagues[5] and Rassin and his colleagues[14], which have reported there is no significant difference of moral TAF, in the obsessive compulsive disorder and depression groups
Summary
In the TAF theory, thought and action are treated as equivalents[2].The contemporary TAF concept arose fro m Rach man’s[3]and Salkovskis’[4]theories and clin ical observations of patients with obsessional thinking, where it was noticed that OCD patients assume that a thought is like an action[4].Shafran, Thordarson, and Rachman[5], first formally introduced and investigated the concept. They developed a measure of TAF that has been incorporated into most subsequent research. It has been argued to be a central cognitive feature of OCD[6,7]
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