Thank you for your good suggestion. Because of unavailability of its Japanese version, we have not use Young Schema Questionnairethe. If possible, it should be useful to distinguish schemas from confounding variables associated with cognitive inflexibility. Development of the Japanese version is now ongoing. Your suggestion is very valuable for me. Thank you again, Ygor!

Hisato

Dear Hisato,

We have the YSQ - brief version now translated and validated to Brazilian Portuguese. It is apleasure to hear from you that it make sense!

Tks!

Ygor

Thank you, Ygor. I think that there may be primary or secondary inflexibility of cognition in OCD; the maladaptive schemas may be associated with primary cognitive inflexibility such as OCPD or ASD traits. Childhood traumatic experiences may also be important.

The secondary inflexibility may be correlated with temporal variation in symptomatic features, such as goal-directed or habitual behaviors, which may occur corresponding to changes of cognitive flexibilities during the course of illness. It may be fruitful and quite interesting to examine the cross-cultural comparisons of maladaptive schemes between Brazilian and Japanese OCD sample in order to clarify the essentially psychopathological basis for developing OCD and to further understand the treatment refractoriness of OCD. Of course, we should take into account the bias related to comorbid disorders.

When we can use the Japanese version, I would like to let you know soon and am so happy to do a collaboration with you, if possible!

Thanks again, Ygor!

Hisato

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It depends on which sample...I used it to investigate some diferences in OCD and OCPD and "inflexibility" was not statiscally different for the groups...We did not use a "control/helathy" control group...

Of course it could be very interesting to do a collaborative study. I have two friends here in Brazil (Psychologists) that are experts in maladaptative schemas and, thus, we could join to think on a project on OCD and/or OCRD!

Your study focusing on the differences of cognitive inflexibility between OCD and OCPD seems very interesting and meaningful! Cognitive domains including inflexibility of OCD patients may be associated with the symptom type, comorbidity (e.g. ASD-related), or the course of OCD (e.g. DUI). A collaboration study may be interesting, because some sociocultural or ethnic backgrounds may also be influential. As for compulsivity, indeed, there may be a substantial difference of personality basis between Japanese and Brazilian.