Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

Evaluation of the relationship between cognitive flexibility and obsession in anxiety patients

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Gholamreza Sanagavi Moharrar 1
Hamidreza Mir Shekari 2
1 Department of Psychology, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran
2 PhD student of Psychology, Zahedan Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran
10.22038/mjms.2019.14889
Abstract
Abstract
Introduction: Despite the achievements of the study of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the diagnosis of cognitive flexibility and obsession in anxiety patients remains challenging. While this is certainly true of depression, recognizing these can help to eliminate such cognitive features and subsequently the underlying mechanisms for informing how to evaluate and treat them.
Methods: ­ This study was performed by correlation and Shapiro-Wilk test with survey of anxiety patients in Imam Ali hospital in Zahedan during April to July of 2010. Sample of 45 patients with anxiety and data gathering tool are Val and Denis (2010) Cognitive Flexibility Questionnaire and Hodgson & Rachman Obsessive Compulsive Questionnaire (1980).
Results: Findings showed that those with higher OCD scores experienced greater paternal flexibility and ultimately more anxiety. And the correlation between cognitive flexibility and obsession is 0.041.
Conclusion: The results showed that patients with higher levels of anxiety had higher scores on obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Keywords
Cognitive flexibility
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Anxiety patients
Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences
Volume 61, supplment1
January and February 2019
Pages 223-230