Hoarding Among Outpatients Seeking Treatment at a Psychiatric Hospital in Singapore

Hoarding symptoms commonly co-occur with other psychiatric disorders, such as major depressive disorder, and have been observed across cultures. Yet, few studies have examined hoarding in other disorders or in an Asian context. The present study aimed to determine: (1) the prevalence of clinically significant hoarding, (2) differences between participants with and without significant hoarding, and (3) predictors of hoarding severity in a Singaporean clinical sample. Five hundred outpatients with anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, schizophrenia, and pathological gambling completed a battery of questionnaires on hoarding, anxiety, depression, functional impairment due to clutter, and quality of life. Thirty percent of our sample reported significant hoarding. However, clutter levels in the hoarding group were low, and hoarding severity was not significantly linked to quality of life, after adjusting for anxiety and depression. In addition, depression - but not anxiety - predicted hoarding severity. Our results provide a cross-cultural perspective on hoarding symptoms, and replicate findings that support a link between depression and hoarding. The differential presentation of hoarding in our sample could be due to true cultural differences in hoarding pathology or to variant psychometric properties of the measures used. Further research evaluating hoarding in Asian contexts with different methodology is needed

Exploring moderator role of filial piety in understanding of entrepreneurial intention : theory of planned behavior approach.

Based on Azjen (1991)’s Theory of Planned Behavior, this study examined moderating role of filial piety in explaining entrepreneurial intention. Two major dimensions of filial piety, authoritarian filial piety and reciprocal filial piety were hypothesized to have different role in explaining entrepreneurial intention. Results of multi-group structural equation modeling indicated that reciprocal filial piety moderated relationship between entrepreneurial attitude and entrepreneurial intention, and relationship between perceived subjective norm and entrepreneurial intention. Authoritarian filial piety was found to have no moderating effects on any hypothesized relationship. Implications and limitations of current study were discussed.Bachelor of Art