Document Type : Original Article

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1 Lecture, department of psychology, Behshahr branch, Islamic Azad University, Behshahr, Iran

2 Professor, department of psychology, educational science and psychology department, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran

3 Professor, department of psychology, ducational science and psychology department, Tabriz University,Tabriz, Iran

Abstract

Background: With attention to considered various cognitive beliefs in psychopathology of disorders, the purpose of this study was comparison of cognitive beliefs include; thought action fusion (TAF), responsibility and the overestimation of threat (RT), and overimportance and control thoughts (ICT), perfectionism and the intolerance of uncertainty (PC) in obsessive –compulsive disorder (OCD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), major depression disorder (MDD) and normal group for more clarification psychopathology of these disorders.
Materials & Methods: This study is causal-comparative research. The clinical samples include patients with OCD, GAD and MDD that referred to Sari Shahid Zareh hospital in 2015. From each of these clinical groups and normal people, 30 persons were selected available sampling method and accomplish obsessive beliefs questionnaire and thought action fusion scale. Data were analyzed by MANOVA.
Results: The result of MANOVA and Tukey posthoc test showed that OCD group were significantly higher than other groups in TAF, RT and ICT (p

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