The role of guilt sensitivity in OCD symptom dimensions

We recently published in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy the paper titled “The role of guilt sensitivity in OCD symptom dimensions” (Melli, Carraresi, Poli, Marazziti, & Pinto, 2017). Unfortunately, we missed to quote a previous study (Perdighe et al., 2015) in which the researchers, before us, proposed the definition and the relevance of Guilt Sensitivity in obsessive–compulsive disorder. They reported the psychometric properties of the Guilt Sensitivity Scale (GSS), which assesses the same construct and is composed by items somewhat similar to those of the GSQ. We improperly stated that “to our knowledge, there are no measures assessing guilt sensitivity”, while the GSS was published in 2015 and previously mentioned in Cosentino et al. (2012) as an unpublished measure. Furthermore, the definition of Guilt Sensitivity and our study's rationale were similar to the one of Perdighe et al. (2015). Hence, the following sentences should be followed by the citation: “The term sensitivity refers to the negative evaluation of one's own emotional state. An emotion, other than being experienced as a response to an evaluation, may also be judged as threatening, because of a subjective experience and due to its inner and interpersonal consequences (Perdighe et al., 2015). Such evaluation entails obvious effects on how an emotion is managed and on the extent of the effort that the subject makes to avoid it (Perdighe et al., 2015).” [page 2, column 2, row 3]. “All the items were worded to assess guilt sensitivity, in terms of intolerance of this feeling and of a tendency to overestimate its negative consequences and repercussions on one's own life” (Perdighe et al., 2015).” [page 3, column 1, row 22]. The original sentence which appears in the thirty first row, second column, page 2 “to our knowledge, there are no measures assessing guilt sensitivity” should be changed to: To our knowledge there is only one measure assessing guilt sensitivity, the Guilt Sensitivity Scale (GSS; Perdighe et al., 2015). The original sentence which appears in the fourth row, first column, page 5 “Unfortunately, it was not possible to test the convergent validity of GSQ due to the lack of an existing measure that assesses the same construct” should be changed to: “Unfortunately, it was not possible to test the convergent validity of GSQ as the GSS (Perdighe et al., 2015) was not published when the present study was being designed.”