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Exposure to stressful and traumatic life events in hoarding: Comparison to clinical controls
Author(s) -
Ouellette Mélise J.,
Rowa Karen,
Soreni Noam,
Elcock Ashleigh,
McCabe Randi E.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.23153
Subject(s) - hoarding (animal behavior) , psychology , anxiety , hoarding disorder , clinical psychology , posttraumatic stress , anxiety disorder , traumatic stress , psychiatry , medicine , compulsive behavior , feeding behavior
Background Individuals with hoarding report stressful and traumatic life events at an elevated rate compared with those with obsessive‐compulsive disorder and healthy controls, but have not been compared with other clinical groups. This study compared rates of traumatic life events between those with clinically significant hoarding, anxiety disorders, or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), hypothesizing that rates would be higher in the hoarding and PTSD groups than the anxiety group. Methods Rates of traumatic and stressful events were compared across groups. Results All comparisons across groups on types of events were significant (partial‐eta squared 0.051–0.162). The hoarding group endorsed significantly more crime‐related events but similar rates of other events as compared to the PTSD and anxiety disorder groups. Conclusion These findings suggest that many stressful and traumatic life events are not uniquely elevated in hoarding when compared with other clinical populations.