Macbeth Arabia: moral threat and cleansing-related construct accessibility in Arab women
The "Macbeth effect" denotes a relationship between threatened moral integrity (e.g., guilt) and cleansing-related cognition and behaviours. This idea has received empirical support and may have implications for our understanding obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Most previous explorati...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Taylor & Francis
2018
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Mental health, religion & culture
Jahr: 2018, Band: 21, Heft: 2, Seiten: 131-138 |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
OCD
B moral threat B Guilt B clean B Arab B Muslim |
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Zusammenfassung: | The "Macbeth effect" denotes a relationship between threatened moral integrity (e.g., guilt) and cleansing-related cognition and behaviours. This idea has received empirical support and may have implications for our understanding obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Most previous explorations of the Macbeth effect, however, have been undertaken in Europe or North America. This study aimed to test the effect among Muslim, Arabic-speaking, citizens of the United Arab Emirates. Experimental participants (N = 112) completed a task designed to threaten moral integrity (recalling past misdeeds), followed by a word-fragment completion task, where cleansing and non-cleansing completions were possible. A control-group (N = 95) completed only the word-fragment completion task. Participants recalling past misdeeds made significantly more cleansing-related word-fragment completions than their control-group counterparts. This study extends evidence of a Macbeth effect to an Arabic-speaking Muslim population and may have implications for our understanding of OCD within this population. |
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ISSN: | 1469-9737 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Mental health, religion & culture
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2017.1381675 |