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KMID : 0981220130130030389
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2013 Volume.13 No. 3 p.389 ~ p.405
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The Differential Roles of Harm Avoidance and Experiential Avoidance in the Development of Obsessions and Compulsions
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Yoo Seong-Jin
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Abstract
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Anxiety disorders can be classified into various subtypes depending on the nature or kind of threatening stimuli. However, there are essential similarities in the underlying mechanism of all anxiety disorders to offset the differences between the surfaces. The action disposition of anxious emotion is the avoidance. Therefore, clinical issues are not the experiences of anxious emotion per se but the efforts to avoid them. In this context, Yoo and Kwon(2013) proposed that GAD symptoms reflect a combination of the ‘experience component’(i.e., harm avoidance) and the ‘control component’(i.e., experiential avoidance). In present study, the author criticised the limitations of the previous model and respectively investigated the differential roles of harm avoidance and experiential avoidance in the development of OCD symptoms, obsessions and compulsion. In order to evaluate the validities of hypothesized models, cross-sectional data were collected from 288 undergraduate students. The results of this study showed that experiential avoidance did not mediate the relationship between harm avoidance and obsessions but did partially mediate the relationship between harm avoidance and compulsions. And the experiential avoidance partially mediated the relationship between obsessions and compulsions. Based on the findings, the author discussed the implications of present study in theoretical and clinical manner. Finally, the limitations of this study were discussed along with suggestions for further research.
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KEYWORD
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harm avoidance, experiential avoidance, obsession, compulsion, anxiety disorder
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