What do you believe? Differentiating obsessive beliefs between bi+, gay/lesbian and heterosexual adults with OCD

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jocrd.2024.100898

Andreas Bezahler , Martha J. Falkenstein , Jennie M. Kuckertz

{"title":"What do you believe? Differentiating obsessive beliefs between bi+, gay/lesbian and heterosexual adults with OCD","authors":"Andreas Bezahler , Martha J. Falkenstein , Jennie M. Kuckertz","doi":"10.1016/j.jocrd.2024.100898","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div>Sexual minority (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual) people are 9 times more likely than heterosexual people to be diagnosed with OCD. Cognitive models of OCD posit that obsessive beliefs drive clinical OCD symptoms, however, obsessive beliefs have yet to be examined based on sexual orientation. Due to prior research identifying that sexual minority people are more likely to be diagnosed or treated for OCD and present with unique symptom profiles, elucidating underlying beliefs may partially explain why these disparities persist. Participants (N = 505) completed the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44 (OBQ-44) upon admission to a partial hospital/residential treatment program for OCD. The three largest sexual orientation groups were bisexual/pansexual (n = 46), gay/lesbian (n = 34), and heterosexual (n = 425). To examine differences, the OBQ-44's subdomains (perfectionism/certainty, responsibility for harm/threat, and importance/control of thoughts) were compared by sexual orientation. Results highlighted that perfectionism/certainty and harm/threat were significantly higher for bi+ compared to heterosexual participants, but not compared to gay/lesbian people, or between heterosexual and gay/lesbian people. This paper adds to a growing body of literature suggesting that the experience of bi+ individuals is different, and future research should identify the role of bi+ discrimination in the development of these core beliefs.</div>","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211364924000423","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Sexual minority (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual) people are 9 times more likely than heterosexual people to be diagnosed with OCD. Cognitive models of OCD posit that obsessive beliefs drive clinical OCD symptoms, however, obsessive beliefs have yet to be examined based on sexual orientation. Due to prior research identifying that sexual minority people are more likely to be diagnosed or treated for OCD and present with unique symptom profiles, elucidating underlying beliefs may partially explain why these disparities persist. Participants (N = 505) completed the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44 (OBQ-44) upon admission to a partial hospital/residential treatment program for OCD. The three largest sexual orientation groups were bisexual/pansexual (n = 46), gay/lesbian (n = 34), and heterosexual (n = 425). To examine differences, the OBQ-44's subdomains (perfectionism/certainty, responsibility for harm/threat, and importance/control of thoughts) were compared by sexual orientation. Results highlighted that perfectionism/certainty and harm/threat were significantly higher for bi+ compared to heterosexual participants, but not compared to gay/lesbian people, or between heterosexual and gay/lesbian people. This paper adds to a growing body of literature suggesting that the experience of bi+ individuals is different, and future research should identify the role of bi+ discrimination in the development of these core beliefs.

查看原文本刊更多论文

您相信什么？区分患有强迫症的双性恋+、男同性恋/女同性恋和异性恋成人的强迫观念

性少数群体（如男同性恋、女同性恋、双性恋）被诊断出患有强迫症的几率是异性恋者的 9 倍。强迫症的认知模型认为，强迫观念是临床强迫症症状的驱动因素，然而，强迫观念尚未根据性取向进行研究。由于先前的研究发现，性取向少数群体更有可能被诊断为强迫症或接受强迫症治疗，并表现出独特的症状特征，因此阐明潜在的信念可能会部分解释这些差异持续存在的原因。参与者（N = 505）在进入强迫症部分医院/住院治疗项目时填写了强迫观念问卷-44（OBQ-44）。最大的三个性取向群体分别是双性恋/泛双性恋（n = 46）、同性恋/双性恋（n = 34）和异性恋（n = 425）。为了研究差异，我们按性取向比较了 OBQ-44 的子域（完美主义/确定性、对伤害/威胁的责任和思想的重要性/控制）。结果显示，与异性恋参与者相比，双性恋+参与者的完美主义/确定性和伤害/威胁显著较高，但与男同性恋/女同性恋相比，或在异性恋和男同性恋/女同性恋之间，双性恋+参与者的完美主义/确定性和伤害/威胁并不显著较高。越来越多的文献表明，双性恋者的经历与异性恋者不同，本文是对这些文献的补充，未来的研究应确定双性恋者在这些核心信念的形成过程中受到的歧视所起的作用。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.