Is obsessive-compulsive disorder a pathology of the human disposition to perform socially meaningful rituals? Evidence of similar content
Is obsessive-compulsive disorder a pathology of the human disposition to perform socially meaningful rituals? Evidence of similar content
复制标题
DOI：
10.1097/00005053-199704000-00001
复制
发表时间：
1997-04-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Haslam, N
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Fiske, AP;Haslam, N
本研究探讨了强迫症（OCD）是人类倾向于执行文化意义的社会仪式的病理学理论。我们检验了这样一个假设，即在强迫症中自我张力障碍的行为和想法，在社会合法化的仪式中被适当地执行时，是有价值的。两名编码员分析了52种文化中每一种文化的仪式，工作和另一种活动的民族志描述。编码器记录了49个强迫症特征和19个其他精神病理学特征的存在或不存在。强迫症的特征更有可能存在，更频繁地发生在仪式比在任何控制;仪式也包含了更多种类的强迫症的功能。其他精神病理学的特征不太可能出现，在仪式中的数量也比强迫症的特征少。方差分析表明，强迫症功能区分仪式和控制比其他精神病理学的功能。这些结果表明，可能存在一种在仪式中正常运作的心理机制，当它变得过度激活时可能会导致强迫症。
This study investigated the theory that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a pathology of the human disposition to perform culturally meaningful social rituals. We tested the hypothesis that the same actions and thoughts that are ego-dystonic in OCD are valued when they are appropriately performed in socially legitimated rituals. Two coders analyzed ethnographic descriptions of rituals, work, and another activity in each of 52 cultures. The coders recorded the presence or absence of 49 features of OCD and 19 features of other psychopathologies. The features of OCD were more likely to be present and occurred more frequently in rituals than in either control; rituals also contained more diverse kinds of OCD features. The features of other psychopathologies were less likely to be present and were less numerous in rituals than the features of OCD. Analysis of variance showed that OCD features discriminate between rituals and controls better than the features of other psychopathologies. These results suggest that there could be a psychological mechanism that operates normally in rituals, which can lead to OCD when it becomes hyperactivated.