Self‐Ambivalence Is Indirectly Associated With Obsessive‐Compulsive and Eating Disorder Symptoms Through Different Feared Self‐Themes

Self-ambivalence warrants additional investigation as a factor associated with multiple forms of psychopathology, representing a potentially valuable target for both intervention and prevention efforts. Differences in the content of the feared self may contribute to our understanding of divergent trajectories (why one individual may develop an ED while another develops OCD). Overall, research of this kind contributes to the development and improvement of transdiagnostic models of psychopathology integrating the self.