Pathways to inflated responsibility beliefs, responsibility attitudes and obsessive-compulsive symptoms: Factor structure and test of a mediational model

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 535-544

  Smári, Jakob ^a   Ṕorsteinsdttir, Ástds ^a   Magnúsdóttir, Lilja ^a   Smári, Unnur J ^a   Ólason, Danel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

CFA; mediation; OCD; Responsibility attitudes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957286731     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S135246581000041X     Document Type: Article

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