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Cognitive Rigidity, Habitual Tendencies, and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: Individual Differences and Compensatory Interactions.

cam.issuedOnline2022-04-27
dc.contributor.authorRamakrishnan, Smriti
dc.contributor.authorRobbins, Trevor W
dc.contributor.authorZmigrod, Leor
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-11T08:00:16Z
dc.date.available2022-05-11T08:00:16Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.date.submitted2022-01-30
dc.date.updated2022-05-11T08:00:15Z
dc.description.abstractRecent theories have posited a range of cognitive risk factors for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), including cognitive inflexibility and a maladaptive reliance on habits. However, empirical and methodological inconsistencies have obscured the understanding of whether inflexibility and habitual tendencies indeed shape OCD symptoms in clinical and sub-clinical populations, and whether there are notable interactions amongst these traits. The present investigation adopted an interactionist individual differences approach to examine the associations between behaviorally-assessed cognitive flexibility and subclinical OCD symptomatology in a healthy population. It also explored the nature of the interactions between cognitive flexibility and habitual tendencies, and the degree to which these cognitive traits predict subclinical OCD symptomatology. Across two studies, including a preregistration, Bayesian and regression analyses revealed that cognitive inflexibility and compulsive habitual tendencies act as unique and independent predictors of subclinical OCD symptomatology in healthy populations. Furthermore, there was a significant interaction between cognitive rigidity and habitual compulsivity, which accounted for 49.4% of the variance in subclinical OCD symptomatology in Study 1, and 37.3% in Study 2. In-depth analyses revealed a compensatory effect between cognitive inflexibility and habitual compulsivity such that both are necessary for OCD symptomatology, but neither is sufficient. These results imply that in order to generate reliable and nuanced models of the endophenotype of OCD symptomatology, it is essential to account for interactions between psychological traits. Moreover, the present findings have important implications for theories on the cognitive roots of OCD, and potentially in the development of interventions that target both cognitive inflexibility and habitual compulsivity.
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.84425
dc.identifier.eissn1664-0640
dc.identifier.issn1664-0640
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/337005
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFrontiers Media SA
dc.publisher.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.865896
dc.subjectBayes Factors
dc.subjectcognitive flexibility
dc.subjectcognitive rigidity
dc.subjecthabits
dc.subjectindividual differences
dc.subjectinteractions
dc.subjectobsessive-compulsive
dc.subjectsubclinical symptoms
dc.titleCognitive Rigidity, Habitual Tendencies, and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: Individual Differences and Compensatory Interactions.
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2022-04-01
prism.publicationNameFront Psychiatry
prism.volume13
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
rioxxterms.versionVoR
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.3389/fpsyt.2022.865896

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