Change in obsessive beliefs as predictor and mediator of symptom change during treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder – a process-outcome study

Table 5 Regression analyses for the hypothesized mediation model with obsessive beliefs as mediator

Step	Path	Predictor variable	Outcome variable	B	SE B	t	p
1	c	Time	Y-BOCS	-3.92	0.38	-10.41	< .001
2	a	Time	OBQ - Global	-0.32	0.05	-6.94	< .001
3	b	OBQ - Global	Y-BOCS	1.77	0.54	3.27	.001
	c'	Time	Y-BOCS	-3.35	0.40	-8.29	< .001

Note. N = 71. Y-BOCS = Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale. OBQ - Global = Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire Global Score

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