PhD Scientific Days 2024

Poster Session C - Mental Health Sciences 1.

‘Behind the Curtains of Hoarding Behavior’: Preliminary Insights from a Hungarian Community Sample

Előadó neve

Bányai, Borbála, MSc

Neptun code

EY5IYL

Előadó munkahelye

Semmelweis University Doctoral School, Mental Health Sciences Division, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Doctoral Program

Előadó telefonszáma

+36306906697

Előadó e-mail címe

banyai.borbala@phd.semmelweis.hu

Az előadás címe

‘Behind the Curtains of Hoarding Behavior’: Preliminary Insights from a Hungarian Community Sample

Szerző(k) neve és munkahelye

Borbála Bányai¹, Balázs Matuszka²

1: Semmelweis University Doctoral School, Mental Health Sciences Division, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Doctoral Program
2: Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Institute of Psychology, Department of Personality and Clinical Psychology

Bemutatás módja

Poszter

Szekció

Poster Session C - Mental Health Sciences 1.

Language of the presentation

Hungarian

Preferred session

Mental Health Sciences

Összefoglaló szövege

Introduction: Hoarding behavior is a multifaceted phenomenon influenced by various cognitive, emotional, and environmental factors. Hoarding beliefs play a crucial role in the development and sustainment of clinically relevant hoarding symptomatology. While prior research has identified distinct belief profiles in Hoarding Disorder (HD), understanding the manifestation of these beliefs across different hoarding stages remains limited.

Aim: We aim to explore the psychometric characteristics of a new scale on hoarding-related beliefs and vulnerabilities.

Methods: A 46-item measure, the Hungarian Hoarding Beliefs and Vulnerabilities Questionnaire, comprising beliefs about possessions derived from a Q-methodological exploration, was transformed into a 7-point Likert-scale. Administered alongside the Hungarian Saving Inventory-Revised (HUSI-R), data were analyzed through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to unveil underlying belief dimensions and their relation to hoarding tendencies.

Results: The sample consisted of 358 Hungarian adults (78% women, MAGE = 40.88; SDAGE = 16.29), 13% exceeded the HUSI-R cutoff for clinically significant hoarding, while 17% were subclinical. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a four-factor model (Total variance explained = 68.8%) consisting of 17 items, encompassing Identity and Life Narrative, Moral Responsibility, Physical Security, and Emotional and Attachment Security dimensions. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed this model's robustness, showing good fit indices (CFI = 0.941, TLI = 0.928, RMSEA = 0.070) and high internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = 0.826 to 0.882). Medium to strong correlations were found between hoarding, obsessive-compulsive, depression, and anxiety symptoms with Moral Responsibility and Physical Security. Differences in hoarding beliefs among subgroups remained unclear.

Conclusion: We condensed the 46-item questionnaire into a 17-item version due to our quantitative strategy's reliance on Q-sorting, a mixed-methods technique. Caution is warranted in interpreting our exploratory findings, as this is an initial study. Further exploration in clinical samples is needed to understand associations with severe psychopathology symptoms, but examining latent belief dimensions offers valuable insights into hoarding behavior mechanisms.

Funding: This research received no external funding.

University

Semmelweis University

Supervisor

Balázs Matuszka, PhD

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Kind

Szabad

Status

elfogadva

Accepted presentation method

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Előadó

8237

Start

15:35

End

15:38