The Relationship between Self-Regulation Processes (Mindfulness, Integrative Self-Knowledge and Self-Control) and Severity of Obsessive- Compulsive Personality Disorder Symptoms: the Role of Conscientiousness

This study was aimed to investigate the relationship between self-regulation processes and the symptom severity of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder according to conscientiousness in non-clinical sample. 210 Iranian students of Tehran province universities (147 women and 63 men) were selected by available sampling and completed following scales: Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (Brown & Ryan, 2003), Revised Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Questionnaire (Martukovich, 2004), Integrative Self-Knowledge Scale (Ghorbani, et al. 2008), Brief Self-Control Scale (Tangney, et al. 2004) and 10 questions of conscientiousness from Goldberg Big 5 (50) Personality Scale (1999). The analysis path method showed the mediator role of conscientiousness in relationship between mindfulness and self-control with symptom severity of OCPD. Mindfulness was directly related to symptom severity of OCPD and conscientiousness played the mediator role between mindfulness and self-control with symptom severity of OCPD. It can be concluded that mindfulness may play the protective role against the nonclinical OCPD symptoms and high level of self-control in the individuals with pathological levels of conscientiousness may underlie OCPD symptoms.