Background and Purpose: Strategies and quality of attachment are important variables in mental health of children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to compare quality of attachment and coping strategies in students with and without Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Method: The design of study was descriptive of causal-comparative type. The statistical population was consisted all elementary school female students of fourth and fifth grades in Shiraz city in 2016.In this study, 60 female students including 30 with and 30 without OCD were selected via the convenience sampling method. To collect the data, Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Goodman & et.al, 1989), Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment Revised for children (IPPA-R) (Gullon & Robinson, 2005) and Children’s Coping Behavior Questionnaire (Brittany & Hernandez, 2008) used. Data were analyzed using Multivariable Analyze of Variance.
Results: Result of independent sample t-test showed that there are differences in quality of attachment between the two group students (P < 0.05. (In other words, children with Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder (OCD) had lower scores on quality of attachment variable to the children without OCD. In addition, results of MANOVA revealed that children with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) have greater self-alienation (P < 0.05 (and destructive coping and also lower trust and ameliorative coping than healthy students (P < 0.05).
Conclusion: Diagnosis of coping strategies and quality of attachment in sufficiency and planning suitable interventions accordingly can have a positive effect in prevention and treatment of OCD.