نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Aim: Maladaptive daydreaming is an extreme pattern with high comorbidity with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), yet its psychological differentiating factors remain under-researched. This study aimed to predict group membership of OCD patients into two subgroups (with and without maladaptive daydreaming) based on feelings of shame, perfectionism, and self-criticism.
Method: This was a descriptive, causal-comparative study. The statistical population comprised OCD patients visiting psychiatric centers in Tehran in 2025. Using convenience sampling, 200 participants were selected and categorized into two groups based on the cutoff score of the Maladaptive Daydreaming Scale. Instruments included the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (Foa et al., 2002), Maladaptive Daydreaming Scale (Somer et al., 2017), Experience of Shame Scale (Goss et al., 1994), Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Fairweather-Schmidt et al., 2019), and Forms of Self-Criticising/Attacking & Self-Reassuring Scale (Gilbert et al., 2004). Data were analyzed using discriminant analysis in SPSS26.
Results: Patients with OCD and maladaptive daydreaming scored significantly higher in shame, perfectionism, and self-criticism components (P<0.01). Self-critical perfectionism was the strongest predictor of group membership with a structure coefficient of 0.64. Subsequently, inadequacy feelings (0.62), self-reassurance (0.62), rigid perfectionism (0.60), narcissistic perfectionism (0.57), inadequate self (0.56), hated self (0.56), emptiness feelings (0.55), and shame of making mistakes (0.52) played the most prominent roles in differentiating the two groups. Together, these variables correctly classified the two groups with 90% accuracy.
Conclusion: Assessment of these variables is recommended for early diagnosis and for designing interventions targeting maladaptive perfectionism and self-criticism in these patients.
کلیدواژهها English