Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)

The Role of Perfectionism in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Authors
Lingyun Lu1, *
1Department of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
*Corresponding author. Email: lingyun.lu.20@alumni.ucl.ac.uk
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Lingyun Lu
Available Online 30 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_319How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Perfectionism; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Abstract

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic and serious disorder, that results in functional impairments and negative life outcomes. Investigating the etiological model of OCD is a vital task to provide treatment implications. Empirical evidence suggests that perfectionism plays a key role in the development, maintenance, and treatment of OCD. The aim of this paper is to review past studies exploring the relationship between perfectionism and OCD and give some future directions in this area. Based on the findings of past research, it remains unclear how perfectionism plays a role in OCD. Although numerous evidence suggests that perfectionism is significantly correlated with OCD, there is evidence reporting some factors mediating this relationship. As a matter of fact, more evidence is needed in this area. In the future, researchers should consider testing the causality of this relationship using experimental designs and also take mediators into account in their study to have a more comprehensive understanding of the role of perfectionism in OCD, which is helpful to provide practical implications in treatments as well.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
30 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_319
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_319How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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