
Journal of Clinical Psychology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown
Опубликована: Апрель 14, 2025
ABSTRACT Objectives Uncertainty regarding the self and fear of have been independently identified as relevant to both obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD) eating disorders (EDs). The present study aimed examine self‐ambivalence (an indicator uncertainty often characterized by conflicting self‐beliefs) a potential transdiagnostic factor associated with OCD EDs determine whether differences in thematic content feared may be linked experience symptoms one over another despite common co‐occurrence shared processes. Methods Undergraduate community women ( N = 138) completed battery questionnaires, which included measures self‐ambivalence, (assessing three self‐themes: corrupted self, culpable unattractive self), ED symptoms. Results A path analysis revealed that was directly Self‐ambivalence also indirectly via self. There no indirect through Conclusion warrants additional investigation multiple forms psychopathology, representing potentially valuable target for intervention prevention efforts. Differences contribute our understanding divergent trajectories (why individual develop an while develops OCD). Overall, research this kind contributes development improvement models psychopathology integrating
Язык: Английский