The investigation to Structural relationships modeling fitness of OCD clinical symptoms with visual - verbal memory: Test of focus and attention change ability

Subject Areas : Thoughts and Behavior in Clinical Psychology

Received: 2017-11-05 Accepted : 2017-11-05 Published : 2017-09-23

Keywords: obsessive compulsive disorder, visual memory, verbal memory, attention control,

Abstract :

Obsessive compulsive disorder is a debilitating disorder that indicated by unwanted, involuntary, and involuntary thoughts, impulses and images. There is a lot of evidence of the damage to executive functions of obsessive-compulsive disorder and there seems there is a defect in verbal and verbal memory in obsessive-compulsive disorder. The purpose of the present study was to provide a structural model of the relationships between concentration components and attention shift with the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder and visual-verbal memory in the clinical population. For purpose this, in a descriptive study of correlation type selected 280 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder among clinics and psychiatrists in Urmia city by available exampling and were tested in terms of signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder and attention control and verbal - verbal paired associations. Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equations modeling showed that have a signification relationship between verbal memory and visual memory in the from directly and indirectly related to mediating attention control with OCD symptoms. It seems attention focusing and changing attention can be Mediator role as a mediator variable in the relationship between obsessive-compulsive disorder and visual and verbal memory.