It's not so much about what you touch: Mental contamination mediates the relationship between feared self-perceptions and contact contamination
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jocrd.2020.100507
Abstract: Abstract Contamination concerns are among the most common symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Research has recently focused on mental contamination, defined as feelings of dirtiness and/or washing behaviour arising in the absence of direct contact… read more here.
Keywords: contact contamination; self perceptions; feared self; contamination ... See more keywords