期刊名称：International Journal of Social Sciences and Education
印刷版ISSN：2227-393X
电子版ISSN：2223-4934
出版年度：2016
卷号：6
期号：3
页码：296
出版社：Federal College of Education
摘要：Recent research trends have focused on identifying cognitive beliefs that are significantly associated with the development of OCD, in an attempt to homogenous evidence-based therapeutic and preventative efforts. The research at hand aims at identifying how the relationship of these beliefs and OCD is affected by culture as well as symptom severity to identify the generalizability of this data. The research at hand studies the effects of culture and symptom severity on a number of cognitive beliefs shown to be associated with OCD in a cross cultural design between Kuwait and Iran. Methods: Arabic and Persian versions of the MOCI, OBQ-44, BDI and OCI were administered, in both Iran (n=167) and Kuwait (n=200) on samples of students chosen through random cluster sampling from Kuwait University and Shiraz University. Additionally, two samples of individuals diagnosed with OCD (n=20) were also chosen from Shiraz and Kuwait mental health facilities. Analysis of variance was conducted with culture and symptoms severity entered as two dependent variables. Statistically significant differences were seen in the three cognitive beliefs categories in non-clinical populations however these differences wer e not identified in the clinical populations. Conclusion: The results indicate that cultural differences are a relevant factor when designing preventative approaches targeting general population and data from one culture cannot be easily generalized to another. Symptom severity levels need to be considered as well. However, these factors are not significantly relevant in clinical populations, meaning cognitive therapy approaches are more generalizable
