Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder across Developmental Trajectory: Cognitive Processing of Threat in Children, Adolescents, and Adults
Everybody experiences intrusive thoughts once in a while, yet we think nothing of it most of the time. However, for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, such thoughts occur frequently, and they are likely to be interpreted with more emotional intensity, and are highly uncontrollable. Obsessions signify the extreme end on a continuum of normal, unwanted, intrusive thinking. Studies have shown that the central components of the cognitive theory have found evidence supporting cognitive biases of increased responsibility, probability, and severity of harm related to OCD symptoms. It was hypothesized that adolescents will have higher OCD-related cognitive bias ratings of threat including adults compared to children. It was also hypothesized that adults will have a higher rating than adolescents. Results have shown that it is indeed the children that......
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