Components of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: A meta-synthesis

Najafi, Mahmood; Farhoush, Mohammad

doi:10.22075/jcp.2025.38006.3222

Components of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: A meta-synthesis

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

mahmood najafi ¹
Mohammad Farhoush ²

¹ Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

² Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.

10.22075/jcp.2025.38006.3222

Abstract

Background: Although obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is one of the most common personality disorders in the general population, there are few studies on its measurement and treatment due to its prevalence. One of the obstacles to research is the ambiguities and contradictions that exist about the main components and indicators of this disorder. Therefore, the aim of the current research is to determine the components and indicators of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder based on meta-synthesis and qualitative integration of past studies.
Method: According to the purpose of the research, scientific articles related to obsessive-compulsive personality disorder were collected and analyzed using the meta-synthesis method. The statistical population of this study included scientific articles related to obsessive-compulsive personality disorder in Persian and English. In order to increase the reliability of the results, only studies were selected that were indexed in the databases of SID, noormags, ensani, IranDoc, Google Scholar, Psychnet, and PubMed in the period (2006-2024). These researches were collected and obsessive personality syndromes were extracted and categorized by inductive qualitative content analysis method. Then the main components and characteristics were determined, and to evaluate their content validity, they were presented to 7 experts and confirmed.
Results: The meta-synthesis results showed that obsessive-compulsive personality disorder includes 4 main components of strictness and extreme precision, perfectionism, extreme order and organization, and inner affect, each of which includes 6 characteristics.
Conclusion: OCPD experts should target reduction of these four components in assessments and therapeutic interventions.

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