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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Res Ther. 2007 Aug 6;45(12):2884–2898. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2007.07.014

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for OCD Symptoms and Beliefs, Mood and Attribution Categories

OC Status
High Low
Thinking Instructions
Suppression
(n = 32)
Monitoring
(n = 35)
Suppression
(n = 31)
Monitoring
(n = 28)
M SD M SD M SD M SD
OCI-R 32.30a 7.12 32.77a 9.22 5.00b 2.08 4.83b 2.09
OBQ 167.71a 39.94 165.90a 35.99 123.17b 40.65 109.34 b 31.86
BDI 15.27 a 9.46 12.21 a 6.75 6.51 b 4.99 5.86 b 4.37
Import. 2.75 a .93 3.04 a .74 2.01 b .81 2.18 b .81
Internal 1.67 a .70 1.63 a .52 1.14 b .19 1.15 b .19
Norm. 3.37 .75 3.39 .65 3.27 .97 3.14 .89
Extern. 2.42 a .73 2.80 b .76 1.97 c .60 2.28 ac .74

Note: Group differences are noted by unique letter superscripts (i.e., ‘a’ versus ‘b’) and are all significant at p < .01. OCI-R refers to Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory – Revised; OBQ refers to the Obsessional Beliefs Questionnaire – Short Form; BDI refers to the Beck Depression Inventory; Import., Internal, Norm. and Extern. refer to Importance, Internal, Normative and External attributions from the Thought Control Attributions Questionnaire.