Presenter: Eli Baughan
Authors: Elijah Baughan, Jared Nielsen
Faculty Advisor: Jared Nielsen
Institution: Brigham Young University
Scrupulosity is a form of OCD that is primarily comprised of religious/moral symptoms. Scrupulosity has been correlated with psychological constructs like perfectionism and thought-action-fusion. Current models of scrupulosity fail to include self-compassion, which we believe to be an essential component of scrupulosity’s symptom profile. We administered the Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity-Revised (PIOS-R) and the short form of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) to 384 college students. The SCS total score exhibits a significant negative correlation with the PIOS-R total score (r=-.440 p<.001). Our results indicate that poor self-compassion plays a role in the obsessive – compulsive cycle of scrupulosity and should be included in future treatment models.