Further evidence for biased semantic networks in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): when knives are no longer associated with buttering bread but only with stabbing people
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Further evidence for biased semantic networks in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): when knives are no longer associated with buttering bread but only with stabbing people. / Jelinek, Lena; Hauschildt, Marit; Hottenrott, Birgit; Kellner, Michael; Moritz, Steffen.
in: J BEHAV THER EXP PSY, Jahrgang 45, Nr. 4, 01.12.2014, S. 427-434.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - Further evidence for biased semantic networks in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): when knives are no longer associated with buttering bread but only with stabbing people
AU - Jelinek, Lena
AU - Hauschildt, Marit
AU - Hottenrott, Birgit
AU - Kellner, Michael
AU - Moritz, Steffen
N1 - Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Semantic network models suggest that individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) process words with multiple meanings (e.g., "knife") more likely in an OC-related (i.e., "weapon") than in a neutral way (i.e., "cutlery"). Initial evidence was found in an online study. The aim of the current study was to investigate semantic networks in a clinical OCD sample and particularly to identify whether changes in semantic networks following the add-on intervention association splitting (AS) exceeded changes expected through cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) alone.METHODS: An association task was presented to 36 healthy controls and 70 OCD patients over a period of eight weeks with OCD patients receiving CBT and an add-on intervention (randomized allocation to either AS or a computerized cognitive training). Participants were asked to generate up to five associations to standardized (OC-relevant, negative, neutral) and individual cue words. Associations were rated with regard to OC-relevance and valence.RESULTS: Analyses revealed that OCD participants produced a) significantly more OC-relevant associations and b) more negative associations than controls for cue words. In the OCD sample, the OC-relevance and valence of associations changed after therapy for personal cue words. This effect was associated with AS at statistical trend level.LIMITATIONS: No clinical control group was recruited; no inter-rater reliability was assessed for the association task.CONCLUSIONS: Further evidence for biased associative networks in OCD was found. Associations of individually chosen cue words proved to be modifiable by therapy.
AB - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Semantic network models suggest that individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) process words with multiple meanings (e.g., "knife") more likely in an OC-related (i.e., "weapon") than in a neutral way (i.e., "cutlery"). Initial evidence was found in an online study. The aim of the current study was to investigate semantic networks in a clinical OCD sample and particularly to identify whether changes in semantic networks following the add-on intervention association splitting (AS) exceeded changes expected through cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) alone.METHODS: An association task was presented to 36 healthy controls and 70 OCD patients over a period of eight weeks with OCD patients receiving CBT and an add-on intervention (randomized allocation to either AS or a computerized cognitive training). Participants were asked to generate up to five associations to standardized (OC-relevant, negative, neutral) and individual cue words. Associations were rated with regard to OC-relevance and valence.RESULTS: Analyses revealed that OCD participants produced a) significantly more OC-relevant associations and b) more negative associations than controls for cue words. In the OCD sample, the OC-relevance and valence of associations changed after therapy for personal cue words. This effect was associated with AS at statistical trend level.LIMITATIONS: No clinical control group was recruited; no inter-rater reliability was assessed for the association task.CONCLUSIONS: Further evidence for biased associative networks in OCD was found. Associations of individually chosen cue words proved to be modifiable by therapy.
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.05.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.05.002
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 24929782
VL - 45
SP - 427
EP - 434
JO - J BEHAV THER EXP PSY
JF - J BEHAV THER EXP PSY
SN - 0005-7916
IS - 4
ER -