In the nonclinical group, none of the facets of spirituality moderated the relationships between religiosity and fundamentalism or moral TAF. Siev, Chambless, and Huppert (2010) examined religious affiliation as a moderator of the relationship between Morale-TAF and obsessions and compulsions in a student population. Level of religiosity was unrelated to any of the outcome variables and did not moderate the association between religious affiliation and OCD symptoms or obsessive-compulsive cognitions.
Much of this inconsistency is likely due to the continued inadequate measurement of the concept of religiosity/spirituality in the literature. The vast majority of the research literature examining the relationship between religiosity/spirituality and cognitive features of OCD has used the construct of TAF. However, including this moderator in the model only explained an additional 0.9% of the variance.
The positive relationship between religious crisis and the order subscale of the OCI-R (r = .260) approached a medium effect size. The negative relationship between religious involvement and the hoarding subscale of the OCI-R (r = -.251) approached a medium effect size. However, most of the effect sizes of the relationship between measures of religiosity/spirituality and the OCI-R total score and its subscales were of a trivial or small size.
None of the relationships between measures of religiosity/spirituality and the OCI-R and its subscales were statistically significant. Religious fundamentalism was positively associated with the controlling subscale of the OCI-R and evidenced a medium effect size. Spirituality (ASPIRES – STS – Total) was not a significant moderator of the relationship between religiosity (ASPIRES – RSS – RI) and conscientiousness (PIOS).
In the non-clinical sample, the hypothesis was supported in that all mediation analyzes were significant. In a non-clinical sample, relationships between measures of religiosity/spirituality and compulsions (OCI-R) were generally of small effect sizes, with the exception of positive relationships with religious crisis and compulsion subtypes, which were typically medium or near medium effect sizes. The purpose of the current research is to clarify the relationship between religiosity/spirituality and cognitive factors and OCD symptoms given the mixed results of past research and the inadequacy of measuring the religiosity and spirituality constructs common in past research.
In the non-clinical sample, all proposed mediators were statistically significant and the effects were medium in size. For the clinical group, none of the proposed mediators were statistically significant (and this is not unexpected given the small sample size). In the clinical sample, none of the proposed mediators were statistically significant (which is not surprising given the small sample size).
In the nonclinical sample, only religious crisis was significantly positively associated with some coercive subtype scales of the OCI-R.
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