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Enhanced visual performance in obsessive compulsive personality disorder
Author(s) -
Ansari Zohreh,
Fadardi Javad Salehi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/sjop.12312
Subject(s) - psychology , contrast (vision) , personality , audiology , perception , obsessive compulsive , personality disorders , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , medicine , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , computer science
Visual performance is considered as commanding modality in human perception. We tested whether Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder ( OCPD ) people do differently in visual performance tasks than people without OCPD . One hundred ten students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and non‐student participants were tested by Structured Clinical Interview for DSM ‐ IV Axis II Personality Disorders ( SCID ‐ II ), among whom 18 (mean age = 29.55; SD = 5.26; 84% female) met the criteria for OCPD classification; controls were 20 persons (mean age = 27.85; SD = 5.26; female = 84%), who did not met the OCPD criteria. Both groups were tested on a modified Flicker task for two dimensions of visual performance (i.e., visual acuity: detecting the location of change, complexity, and size; and visual contrast sensitivity). The OCPD group had responded more accurately on pairs related to size, complexity, and contrast, but spent more time to detect a change on pairs related to complexity and contrast. The OCPD individuals seem to have more accurate visual performance than non‐ OCPD controls. The findings support the relationship between personality characteristics and visual performance within the framework of top‐down processing model.