Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2019
Publication Title
Cognitive Therapy and Research
Abstract
Excessive acquiring is a common symptom of hoarding disorder (HD). Little is known about subjective distress associated with acquiring in HD. The present study examined acquiring-related distress and reactions to cognitive restructuring (CR) in 92 individuals with HD and 66 community control (CC) participants. All participants identified an item of interest at a high-risk acquiring location and then decided whether or not to acquire the item. HD participants completed the acquiring task while receiving a CR-based intervention or a thought-listing (TL) control condition. Results showed that HD participants reported more severe distress and greater urges to acquire the item of interest than did CC participants. Nevertheless, subjective distress decreased in both groups following the acquiring task. There were no differences in acquiring-related distress between the CR and TL conditions. The findings indicate that subjective distress may decrease after relatively short periods of time in individuals with HD, but that a single session of CR may not alleviate acquiring-related distress in HD participants.
Keywords
Acquiring, Cognitive restructuring, Collecting, Hoarding
Volume
43
Issue
6
First Page
1065
Last Page
1074
DOI
10.1007/s10608-019-10022-1
ISSN
01475916
Recommended Citation
Levy, Hannah C.; Frost, Randy O.; Offermann, Elizabeth A.; Steketee, Gail; and Tolin, David F., "A Comparison of Cognitive Restructuring And Thought Listing For Excessive Acquiring In Hoarding Disorder" (2019). Psychology: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/psy_facpubs/149
Comments
Peer reviewed accepted manuscript.