the mediating role of emotional awareness and uncertainty intolerance in the relationship between childhood fears and behavioral brain systems with obsessive-compulsive disorder in secondary school students of Kohdasht city

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.

2 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to investigate the mediating role of emotional awareness and intolerance of ambiguity in the relationship between childhood fears and brain-behavioral systems with signs and symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in high school girls and boys of Kohdasht city. This research is a fundamental research in terms of its purpose, and a descriptive-correlation type of structural equations in terms of research method. The statistical population of this research is all students studying in the second secondary level in the academic year 1402-1401. In this research, 441 samples (273 girls and 168 boys) were analyzed. To collect data from the Fear Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents , Behavioral Inhibition/Activation Systems Scale, Emotional Awareness Questionnaire (EAQ-30), Intolerance of Uncertainty Questionnaire (IUS) and Obsessive Compulsive Inventory – Revised )OCI-R) was used. The fit of the hypothetical model was tested using the structural equation modeling method.The results showed that childhood fears, behavioral brain systems, emotional awareness and intolerance of ambiguity have a direct effect on obsessive-compulsive disorder. Also, childhood fears and behavioral brain systems indirectly affect this disorder through the excitement of awareness and intolerance of ambiguity.

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Journal of Applied Psychological Research

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Available Online from 24 December 2023

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