Irán
The lives of women with symptoms obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) are accompanied with some difficulties. The aim of the present study is to investigate and identify those difficulties in their family lives. The main approach of this research is qualitative in terms of its methodology, and the data analysis method is based the thematic analysis technique. The process of collecting data was founded on 15 semi-structured interviews with women with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. Sampling was conducted via the purposive sampling method and continued until data saturation. Data analysis was conducted concurrently with collecting the data. Data analysis resulted into the extraction of five themes: Growth traumas, Interpersonal difficulties, Parenting difficulties, Relationship of difficulties with others, Marital difficulties. The results indicated that traits of personality of women with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is one of the intrapersonal variables which has a determining effect on individuals’ overt behaviors and their interpersonal relations is among family relations and their family lives are exposed to difficulties. To reduce this effect, these difficulties require consultative and psychological interventions.