Clinical Psychology: Research and Practice Innovations

Clinical Psychology: Research and Practice Innovations"

relationship between thought-action fusion and anxiety sensitivity with women's sexual functioning, through obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Abbas Bakhshipour Rodsari 1
Anita Mozafari 2
1 Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
2 MA in clinical psychology, Department of psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
10.22075/jcp.2025.37361.3160
Abstract
Background: The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between thought-action fusion and anxiety sensitivity with women's sexual functioning, through obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms.
Method: Therefore, 378 married female students from University of Tabriz were selected using a multi-stage random sampling method. Data were collected using the Rosen Women's Sexual Functioning Questionnaire, the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale, the Thought-Action Fusion Scale by Rachman and Shafran, and the Anxiety Sensitivity Index by Reiss. After statistical calculations using AMOS24 software and Structural equation metod.
Results: The results indicated that the measured model had a good fit with the theoretical model, and obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms mediated the relationship between thought-action fusion, anxiety sensitivity, and women's sexual functioning. Additionally, the findings showed a significant negative relationship between anxiety sensitivity and women's sexual functioning, as well as between obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms and women's sexual functioning. There were also significant positive relationships between thought-action fusion and women's sexual functioning, as well as between thought-action fusion and obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms, as well as between anxiety sensitivity and obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms. hence,
Conclusion: it can be concluded that reducing levels of anxiety sensitivity, thought-action fusion, and obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms may improve women's sexual functioning.
Keywords
thought-action fusion
anxiety sensitivity
sexual dysfunction
obsessive-compulsive disorder
Subjects

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  • Receive Date 10 April 2025
  • Revise Date 31 August 2025
  • Accept Date 03 October 2025
  • First Publish Date 03 June 2026
  • Publish Date 22 June 2026