Is Reassurance Seeking Specific to OCD? Adaptation Study of the Turkish Version of Reassurance Seeking Questionnaire in Clinical and Non-Clinical Samples

Background: Reassurance seeking in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a kind of neutralization behaviour that causes considerable interpersonal conflicts. Aims: The purpose of this study was to conduct the adaptation of the Reassurance Seeking Questionnaire (ReSQ; Kobori and Salkovskis, 2013) in...

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Published in:Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy 2019-05, Vol.47 (3), p.363-385
Main Authors: Haciomeroglu, Bikem, Inozu, Mujgan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Anxiety
Anxiety disorders
Anxiety Disorders - psychology
Behavior
Case-Control Studies
Depression - psychology
Ethics
Fear & phobias
Female
Humans
Male
Mental depression
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - psychology
Panic attacks
Personality Inventory
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Psychometrics
Questionnaires
Reproducibility of Results
Research Article
Surveys and Questionnaires - standards
Translations
Turkey
Young Adult
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Summary:Background: Reassurance seeking in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a kind of neutralization behaviour that causes considerable interpersonal conflicts. Aims: The purpose of this study was to conduct the adaptation of the Reassurance Seeking Questionnaire (ReSQ; Kobori and Salkovskis, 2013) into the Turkish language, and to examine its psychometric properties. Moreover, we aimed to identify the specificity of reassurance seeking to OCD, as opposed to other anxiety disorders and depression. Method: Five groups of participants (OCD, anxiety disorders, depression, healthy control groups, and a university student sample) were administered ReSQ, Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire, Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised Form, State and Trait Anger Expression Inventory, Guilt Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory and State Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait Form. Results: The findings revealed acceptable test–retest and internal consistency coefficients, and also good construct, convergent, discriminant and criterion validity information for the Turkish version of the ReSQ scales. Results also revealed some aspects of reassurance seeking specific to OCD as opposed to other anxiety disorders and depression. Conclusion: The results of the present study indicated a good reliability and validity information for the Turkish version of the ReSQ, supporting the cross-cultural nature of the scale.
ISSN:1352-4658
1469-1833
DOI:10.1017/S1352465818000462