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Development and validation of the multidimensional version of the Fear of Self Questionnaire: Corrupted, culpable and malformed feared possible selves in obsessive-compulsive and body-dysmorphic symptoms.

Author(s): Aardema F, Radomsky AS, Moulding R, Wong SF, Bourguignon L, Giraldo-O'Meara M

In recent years, cognitive-behavioural models of OCD have increasingly recognized the potential role of feared possible selves in the development and maintenance of OCD, while simultaneously re-examining factors that have historically been linked to self-pe...

Article GUID: 33547834
"Was I asking for it?": An experimental investigation of perceived responsibility, mental contamination and workplace sexual harassment.

Author(s): Krause S, Radomsky AS

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Mental contamination (i.e., contamination concerns that arise in the absence of direct contact with a contaminant) is a common symptom in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Cognitive theories suggest that it results from individ...

Article GUID: 33321247
The Covert and Overt Reassurance Seeking Inventory (CORSI): Development, validation and psychometric analyses.

Author(s): Radomsky AS, Neal RL, Parrish CL, Lavoie SL, Schell SE

BACKGROUND: Reassurance seeking (RS) is motivated by perceived general and social/relational threats across disorders, yet is often under-recognized because it occurs in covert (i.e. subtle) and overt forms. Covert safety-seeking behaviour may maintain diso...

Article GUID: 33046164
Prediction Errors in Depression: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis.

Author(s): Radomsky AS, Wong SF, Dussault D, Gilchrist PT, Tesolin SB

J Cogn Psychother. 2019 Nov 01;33(4):320-330 Authors: Radomsky AS, Wong SF, Dussault D, Gilchrist PT, Tesolin SB

Article GUID: 32746394
Hoping for more: How cognitive science has and hasn't been helpful to the OCD clinician.

Author(s): Ouimet AJ, Ashbaugh AR, Radomsky AS

Clin Psychol Rev. 2019 04;69:14-29 Authors: Ouimet AJ, Ashbaugh AR, Radomsky AS

Article GUID: 29673581
Cognitive therapy for compulsive checking in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A pilot trial.

Author(s): Radomsky AS, Giraldo-O'Meara M, Wong SF, Dugas MJ, Gelfand LA, Rachman S, Schell S, Senn JM, Shafran R, Whittal ML

Psychiatry Res. 2020 Feb 05;286:112850 Authors: Radomsky AS, Giraldo-O'Meara M, Wong SF, Dugas MJ, Gelfand LA, Rachman S, Schell S, Senn JM, Shafran R, Whittal ML

Article GUID: 32070838
Beliefs about losing control, obsessions, and caution: An experimental investigation.

Author(s): Gagné JP, Radomsky AS

Behav Res Ther. 2020 Jan 30;126:103574 Authors: Gagné JP, Radomsky AS

Article GUID: 32045733
What do you really need? Self- and partner-reported intervention preferences within cognitive behavioural therapy for reassurance seeking behaviour.

Author(s): Neal RL, Radomsky AS

Behav Cogn Psychother. 2019 Sep 09;:1-13 Authors: Neal RL, Radomsky AS

Article GUID: 31495351
When it's at: An examination of when cognitive change occurs during cognitive therapy for compulsive checking in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Author(s): Radomsky AS, Wong SF, Giraldo-O'Meara M, Dugas MJ, Gelfand LA, Myhr G, Schell SE, Senn JM, Shafran R, Whittal ML

J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 2018 Dec 07;: Authors: Radomsky AS, Wong SF, Giraldo-O'Meara M, Dugas MJ, Gelfand LA, Myhr G, Schell SE, Senn JM, Shafran R, Whittal ML

Article GUID: 30573211
The development and validation of the Beliefs About Losing Control Inventory (BALCI).

Author(s): Radomsky AS, Gagné JP

Cogn Behav Ther. 2019 May 29;:1-16 Authors: Radomsky AS, Gagné JP

Article GUID: 31140370
Title:"Was I asking for it?": An experimental investigation of perceived responsibility, mental contamination and workplace sexual harassment.
Authors:Krause S,  Radomsky AS
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33321247
DOI:10.1016/j.jbtep.2020.101633
Category:J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry
PMID:33321247
Dept Affiliation: PSYCHOLOGY
1 Concordia University, Department of Psychology, 7141 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, H4B 1R6, Canada.
2 Concordia University, Department of Psychology, 7141 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, H4B 1R6, Canada. Electronic address: adam.radomsky@concordia.ca.

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"Was I asking for it?": An experimental investigation of perceived responsibility, mental contamination and workplace sexual harassment.

J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 2020 Dec 09; 71:101633

Authors: Krause S, Radomsky AS

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Mental contamination (i.e., contamination concerns that arise in the absence of direct contact with a contaminant) is a common symptom in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Cognitive theories suggest that it results from individuals' misinterpretations of perceived violations. Cognitive theories of OCD also highlight the importance of appraisals of inflated responsibility in the maintenance of other OCD symptoms. However, the role of responsibility in mental contamination has not yet been examined experimentally. The present study examined the role of perceived responsibility and violation in the relationship between workplace sexual harassment imagery and subsequent mental contamination.

METHODS: One hundred and forty-nine participants listened to a workplace sexual harassment imagery task, wherein responsibility was manipulated. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions (high responsibility (HR), low responsibility (LR), no responsibility (NR)). Participants completed questionnaires assessing mental contamination and completed a hand washing task.

RESULTS: Those in the NR condition reported significantly lower levels of responsibility than those in the LR or HR conditions. Accordingly, those in the NR condition also reported significantly lower levels of anxiety and dirtiness than in the LR condition. There were no significant differences between the LR and HR condition on variables of interest.

LIMITATIONS: The nature of the victim blaming used for the responsibility induction may have elicited compensatory responses from participants.

CONCLUSIONS: Findings may highlight the central role of perceptions of violation in the understanding and treatment of mental contamination.

PMID: 33321247 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]