The researchers asked 75 people with OCD to complete questionnaires assessing
inferential confusion, schizotypal personality, dissociative experiences, strength of obsessive beliefs, and depressive and anxiety symptoms.
The results of the CETOCT team highlight the important role of
inferential confusion and dissociative experiences, which are signs that best predict OCD symptoms.
«First,
inferential confusion is a reasoning process in which obsessive doubt takes hold.
«It seems that people with OCD are so absorbed by their obsession due to
inferential confusion that there is a break with reality,» explained Professor Aardema.