Psychological distress tolerance and executive function in normal people and individuals with Obsessive- ompulsive disorder and depression

The current study aimed to determine the differences betweenpsychological Stress tolerance and executive function in normalpeople and individuals with Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)and depression. The statistical population if the study includes OCD,depressed and normal people. The study method was Causal-Comparative. Study sample includes 90 people with OCD,depression and normal people (30 people each) which wereselected by purposive sampling procedure. Beck depressioninventory, the distress tolerance and obsessive- intellectual (MOCI)scale and Wisconsin test were employed for assessment of thevariables. MANOVA and follow up test were used for data analysis.Findings reveal that, there were significant differences inpsychological tolerance distress and aspect of executive function ingroups (p<0.001). Patients with OCD had significant deficiency inabstract thought, cognitive flexibility and improving efficiency withnormal people. In addition, depressed people had got thesedeficiency which was a high difference (= 0.37). Due to thesignificant difference in Psychological tolerance stress and aspect ofexecutive function in OCD, depressed and normal people it isnecessary that the patient get an appropriate treatment byconsidering the psychological and aspect of executive function.

Psychological distress tolerance and executive function in normal people and individuals with Obsessive- ompulsive disorder and depression Keywords:

Obsessive , compulsive disorder , Psychological Stress tolerance , Executive function , Depression