A Study of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies Associated with Ego-Syntonic and Ego-Dystonic Symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Abstract

The cognitive responses to emotion-eliciting events that modify the magnitude/or type of individuals’ individuals’ emotional experience or the event, consciously or unconsciously are known as Cognitive emotion regulation strategies (Campbell-Sills & Barlow, 2007; Harvey, Watkins, Mansell, & Shafran, 2004; Rottenberg & Gross, 2007; Thompson, 1994; Williams & Bargh, 2007). In the present study an attempt has been made to evaluate the application of cognitive emotion regulation strategies associated with ego-syntonic and ego-dystonic symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder. A total of 30 participants were selected for the study. The participants were aged between 20-45 years and the education level ranged from 5th standard to higher education. The tools used in this research were Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale-II (YBOCS-II) (Goodman, Price, Rasmussen, Mazure, Delgado, et al., 1989), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) (Garnefski et al., 2001), Obsessive Compulsive Self-Syntonicity of Symptoms Scale (OCSSSS) (Kirk, 2001), and Ego-Dystonicity questionnaire (Purdon et al., 2007). Exploratory research design was applied. Results suggest no significant relationship of cognitive emotion regulation strategies with ego-syntonic and ego-dystonic symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.