PMID- 23445476
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20151117
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1943-2763 (Electronic)
IS  - 0885-579X (Linking)
VI  - 29
IP  - 3
DP  - 2015 Jun
TI  - Executive functioning in people with obsessive-compulsive personality traits: 
      evidence of modest impairment.
PG  - 418-30
LID - 10.1521/pedi_2013_27_101 [doi]
AB  - Investigations of executive dysfunctions among people with obsessive-compulsive 
      personality disorders (OCPD) have yielded inconsistent results. The authors 
      speculate that obsessive-compulsive personality traits (OCPT) from a nonclinical 
      population may be associated with specific executive dysfunctions relative to 
      working memory, attentional set-shifting, and planning. A sample consisting of 79 
      adults (39 females, 40 males) was divided into high and low scorers on the 
      Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4 (PDQ-4; Hyler, 1994). In addition, these 
      participants were interviewed using the SCID-II (First, Spitzer, Gibbon & 
      Williams, 1997) to confirm the presence of symptoms of obsessive-compulsive 
      personality. Participants completed a battery of executive tasks associated with 
      the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB), including 
      Spatial Working Memory, Intradimensional/Extradimensional (ID/ED), Attentional 
      Set-Shifting, and Stockings of Cambridge. Also, self-report measures of executive 
      functions as well as of anxiety and depressive symptoms were administered. The 
      analysis of covariance revealed significant differences between participants with 
      OCPT and controls on the Spatial Working Memory tasks, ID/ED tasks, Stockings of 
      Cambridge, and the Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX). Nevertheless, there were no 
      significant differences in the number of problems solved in minimum movements. 
      These results suggest that executive dysfunctions are present in people with 
      prominent OCPT and that there is a high convergence between clinical and 
      ecological measures of executive functions in people with obsessive personality 
      traits.
FAU - Garcia-Villamisar, Domingo
AU  - Garcia-Villamisar D
AD  - 1 Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
FAU - Dattilo, John
AU  - Dattilo J
AD  - 2 The Pennsylvania State University, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20130227
PL  - United States
TA  - J Pers Disord
JT  - Journal of personality disorders
JID - 8710838
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Anxiety/*psychology
MH  - *Attention
MH  - Depression/*psychology
MH  - Evidence-Based Medicine
MH  - *Executive Function
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/*psychology
MH  - Personality Disorders/psychology
MH  - Set, Psychology
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2013/03/01 06:00
MHDA- 2015/11/18 06:00
CRDT- 2013/03/01 06:00
PHST- 2013/03/01 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/03/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/11/18 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1521/pedi_2013_27_101 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Pers Disord. 2015 Jun;29(3):418-30. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2013_27_101. Epub 2013 
      Feb 27.