Cognitive schemas and symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder: a model with the mediating role of intolerance of uncertainty

Introduction: the aim of present study was to investigate the mediating effect of intolerance of uncertainty in the relationship between cognitive schemas and symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in khayyam university staff and its effect on their practice. methods: this study was cross-sectional research conducted by a correlation method. the statistical population included all staff of khayyam university in the academic year of 2018-2019 and the sample size was 200 students selected by a proportional stratified sampling method. the questionnaires used in this study included obsessive-compulsive inventory-revised (oci-r), young early maladaptive schema questionnaire-short form (75 questions) and intolerance of uncertainty scale (ius). to analyze the data, the structural equation method and amos-22 software were used. results: the results showed that mediating model of intolerance of uncertainty in the relationship between the early maladaptive schemas and symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the university staff has a good fit. conclusion: all pairwise relationships of variables were significant, meaning that there was a positive and significant relationship between the early maladaptive schemas and symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the university staff and between early maladaptive schemas and intolerance of uncertainty, and between intolerance of uncertainty and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the university staff.