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Korean Journal of Psychology: General

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Vol.27 No.2

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The Anger-pattern of OCD patient in MMPI-II and Rorschach Test

Korean Journal of Psychology: General / Korean Journal of Psychology: General, (P)1229-067X; (E)2734-1127
2008, v.27 no.2, pp.505-522
Hee Young Choi (Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital)
Min-Sup Shin (Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital)
Choi, H. Y., & Shin, M. (2008). The Anger-pattern of OCD patient in MMPI-II and Rorschach Test. Korean Journal of Psychology: General, 27(2), 505-522.

Abstract

This study investigated the relation of the obsessive compulsive(OC) symptoms and the level of conscious and unconscious anger experiences in Obsessive compulsive disorder(OCD) patients, with depressive patients as the control group. The MMPI-II was used to assess conscious anger experience, and the Rorschach Test was used to assess unconscious anger experience. Results indicated that the OC symptoms were associated with both conscious/unconscious anger experience, even controlling for the depressive symptoms. When controlling negative affect, the association between the OC symptoms and the unconscious anger experience showed no significance, but association between the OC symptoms and the conscious anger experience remained significant. The unconscious anger experience of the depressive patients were parallel to the OCD patients, but OCD patients seemed to report more conscious anger experience than the depressive patients. Thus, OCD patients may experience high level of conscious and unconscious anger, and more likely to experience conscious anger than the depressive patients. In addition, conscious anger seemed to impact the distressfulness of the OC symptoms in OCD patients.

keywords
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Anger, MMPI-II, Rorschach Test
Submission Date
2008-07-31
Revised Date
2008-08-31
Accepted Date
2008-09-16

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