Cognitive Performance in a Subclinical Obsessive-Compulsive Sample 1: Cognitive Functions

Table 1

Demographic, clinical, and psychological background characteristics in the sub-clinical and non-clinical groups.

Variable	Sub-clinical; (𝑛=26)		Non-clinical; (𝑛=23)		𝑃
	M	SD	M	SD
Age (years)	35.5	13.0	41.3	15.1
Education (years)	3.8	2.0	4.5	2.0
NART	115.4	5.3	116.6	7.0
Y-BOCS^#	4.2	1.3	0.6	0.8	<.001
MADRS	3.9	2.4	3.5	3.1
STAI-state^#	33.7	8.7	31.7	11.7
STAI-trait^#	38.5	9.4	33.5	9.0
CAIOC^#	38.1	12.9	17.9	7.1	<.001
CPAS	7.5	3.3	4.0	2.8	<.001
SDS^#	4.5	5.1	1.6	2.5
LoC	12.0	3.6	11.6	2.8

Note. CAIOC: cognitive assessment instrument of obsessions and compulsions; CPAS: compulsive personality assessment scale; LoC: locus of control; MADRS: montgomery-Åsberg depression rating scale; SDS: sheehan disability scale; STAI: state-trait anxiety inventory; Y-BOCS: Yale-Brown obsessive compulsive scale; ^#nonparametric Mann-Whitney 𝑈 test used because of unequal variance in the two groups.