Memory Bias in Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: The Effects of Responsibility and Negative Mood
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Keo, Hsiao-Fan
Abstract
The present study explored the interaction effects of cognitive and mood factors on the strength of memory confidence and memory performance of the obsessive-compulsive symptoms. It has been proposed inflated responsibility plays an important role in OCD (Salkovskis, 1989), inflated responsibility would facilitate checking for people in a negative mood condition (MacDonald & Davey, 2005), and decrease memory confidence (Radomsly, Rachman, & Hammond, 2001). However, the interaction of responsibility, negative mood, and word types in OC remains to be investigated. It was hypothesized that negative mood will facilitate more OC relevant memory bias in people with high sense of responsibility. The participants were 84 college students. The design was a 2 × 2 × 3 mixed factorial design, with responsibility (high vs. low), mood condition (positive vs. negative) being between-subjects variables and word type (neutral, contamination, vs. checking) being within-subjects variable. After mood manipulation, participants were asked to perform a memory test and feeling of knowing (FOK) judgments for their memory confidence. The results revealed that responsibility facilitated memory bias. Besides, negative mood with high responsibility generated less memory confidence. Neither high responsibility nor negative mood alone is a sufficient condition for low memory confidence. The implications of the results in terms of acquisition, maintenance, and cognitive behavior therapy for OCD are discussed and future research possibilities are proposed.
Subjects
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
responsibility
memory bias
memory confidence
negative mood
cognitive therapy
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