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Personality traits and smoking in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

S Bejerot ,
L von Knorring  and
L Ekselius
S Bejerot
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, University Hospital, SE 751 85Uppsala, Sweden
L von Knorring
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, University Hospital, SE 751 85Uppsala, Sweden
L Ekselius*
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, University Hospital, SE 751 85Uppsala, Sweden
*
*Correspondence and reprints.
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As opposed to other psychiatric populations, subjects with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) smoke less than the general population. The present study aims at further investigating the relationship between smoking in OCD subjects and personality traits.

Sixty-four subjects with OCD were interviewed concerning their smoking habits. Personality traits were evaluated using the Karolinska Scales of Personality, and specific obsessive-compulsive personality traits were elicited through self-report questionnaires.

Non-smokers were more easily fatigued, more inclined to worry, more remorseful, less self-confident, less impulsive and became uneasy more frequently when urged to speed up, than smokers with OCD.

Additionally, non-smokers fulfilled significantly more obsessive-compulsive personality disorder criteria as compared to the smokers (P < 0.001).

We propose a clinical subtype of OCD related to non-smoking, psychasthenia, anxiety, and pronounced obsessive-compulsive personality disorder traits.

Keywords

obsessive-compulsive disorderobsessive-compulsive personality disorderpersonality traitssmoking
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European Psychiatry , Volume 15 , Issue 7 , November 2000 , pp. 395 - 401
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Copyright © 2001 Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved

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