Relationship of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with Social Anxiety and Psychological Resilience in Adults

Year 2023, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 238 - 250, 27.06.2023

Burak Çalıkkasap Meryem Karaaziz , Cansın İskender

https://doi.org/10.33438/ijdshs.1258313

Abstract

Objective: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental illness characterized by permanent obsessions and compulsions that cause severe distress and disrupting one's functionality. The obsession is defined as a pattern of intortion, intortion and improper thought, idea, imagination and impulses. In this context, the aim of the study is to determine the relationship of obsessive compulsive disorder in adults with social anxiety and psychological durability. The group of this study was composed of individuals who were treated or still seeing in the hospitals and private psychological counseling center in İzmir region in 2022-2023. Method: The sample of the study was composed of 400 participants who have been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive age of 18 years and more selected by the purposeful sampling method. Maudsley Obsessive Compulsive Question list to collect data in the study, Liebowitz was used as a scale of social anxiety and short psychological stability. Results: In the finding of the research, it is moderately positive (p<0.05); Slowness, doubt, strong level between ruminating levels at strong level (p<0,01 *p<0,05); Maudsley is very strongly positive between obsessive compulsive levels(p<0.05); weak levels of anxiety, avoidance and social anxiety levels (p<0,17, p<0,11); The levels of psychological strength were found to be weakly negative and significant relations between the levels. Conclusion: obsessions and compulsions were significant in the results of the research results in the results of the tested variables. However, there were no significant results in the anticipated psychological endurance level. Therefore, the relationship between obsessive-compulsive scores and another variable may be examined.

Keywords

obsessive, compulsive, social anxiety, pyschological resilience

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