Investigating the mediator roles of obsessive beliefs in the relationships between, attachment and obsessive compulsive symptoms/Baglanma ve obsesif kompulsif belirtiler arasindaki iliskide obsesif inanclarin araci rolunun incelenmesi

Objective: The present study aimed at investigating the relationships between attachment, obsessive beliefs and obsessive compulsive symptoms in Turkish normal sample. Moreover, examining the mediator roles of obsessive beliefs between attachment and obsessive compulsive symptoms was aimed. Methods: For these purposes 116 female and 108 male participants completed questionnaires related to research variables. Experience in Close Relationship Scale to evaluate attachment, Obsessive Belief Questionnaire to evaluate obsessive beliefs and Padua Inventory-Washington State University Revision to evaluate obsessive compulsive symptoms were used in this study. Results: A series of hierarchical regression analyses where gender and age were controlled. Findings of the analyses revealed that control variables (gender and age) only predict contamination obsession and cleaning compulsive symptoms. According to results, being female and older age are as a risk factor for this symptoms. The results provide evidence for the mediator role of responsibility/threat estimation of obsessive beliefs between anxiety of attachment and symptoms which are obsessional thoughts about harm to self/others, contamination obsessions and cleaning compulsions, dressing/grooming symptoms. Based on checking symptoms both responsibility/threat and perfectionism/uncertainty obsessive beliefs had the mediator role between anxiety of attachment and these symptoms. Although, avoidance of attachment and importance/control of thoughts predicted obsessional impulses to harm self/others by separately, there were not mediator effects in these analyses. Conclusion: To sum up according to results of this study attachment and obsessive beliefs follow different paths toward different obsessive compulsive symptoms. The results were discussed in the light of the related literature. (Anatolian Journal of Psychiatry 2015; 16(3):155-163) Key words: attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, obsessive beliefs, obsessive compulsive symptoms Amac: Bu arastirmada baglanma, obsesif inanclar ve obsesif kompulsif belirtiler arasindaki iliskilerin incelenmesi amaclanmistir. Bu dogrultuda, baglanma boyutlari ile obsesif kompulsif belirtiler arasinda obsesif inanclarin araci rolu incelenmistir. Yontem: Bu amac dogrultusunda toplam 116 kadin ve 108 erkek olmak uzere toplam 224 kisi ile arastirma yurutulmustur. Katilimcilar YIYEII, OIO-44 ve Padua Envanterini doldurmuslardir. Bulgular: Hiyerarsik regresyon analizlerinde ya