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Interpersonal Functioning In Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, N. M. Cain, E. B. Ansell, H. B. Simpson, A. Pinto
Interpersonal Functioning In Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, N. M. Cain, E. B. Ansell, H. B. Simpson, A. Pinto
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The core symptoms of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) often lead to interpersonal difficulties. However, little research has explored interpersonal functioning in OCPD. This study examined interpersonal problems, interpersonal sensitivities, empathy, and systemizing, the drive to analyze and derive underlying rules for systems, in a sample of 25 OCPD individuals, 25 individuals with comorbid OCPD and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and 25 healthy controls. We found that OCPD individuals reported hostile-dominant interpersonal problems and sensitivities with warm-dominant behavior by others, whereas OCPD+OCD individuals reported submissive interpersonal problems and sensitivities with warm-submissive behavior by others. Individuals with OCPD, with and without OCD, reported …