Exploring Interspousal Damages in the Women with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: A Qualitative Study

Aim and The women with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder face some damages in different relationships during their life knowing them can help the consultants to cure them. The purpose of the present study was to investigate and identify the interspousal damages in women's marital relationships.
Methods and Materials: This was a study based on the qualitative methodology approach. Data collection was done through 14 semi-structured interviews with family specialists, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists. The data analysis was conducted via thematic analysis. The sampling was stated purposefully and it was continued up to the data saturation; data analysis was done simultaneous with the data collection.
Findings: The data analysis led to extracting five themes which showed the background of women's interspousal damages. The themes (subjects) included developmental, intrapersonal, interspousal, familial and social damages which were effective on the interspousal relationship among these women.
The achieved results revealed that familial and environmental damages caused the growth of obsessive-compulsive personality features in these women; these damages affected their relationships in life such as parent-child as well as social relationships, which could affect interspousal relationships. Therefore, in order to decrease the effect of these damages, consultation and psychology interventions are needed in women with obsessive-compulsive personality symptoms.