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Relations between Eysenck's Personality Dimensions, Dimensions of Emotional Control and Physical Symptoms
Igor KARDUM
Jasna HUDEK-KNEŽEVIĆ
Barbara KALEBIĆ
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On the sample of 338 subjects the relations between
Eysenck's personality dimensions, emotional functioning and
various groups of physical symptoms were examined.
Dimensions of emotional control were measured by
Emotional Control Questionnaire (ECQ, Roger and Najarian,
1989), adapted for the purpose of this study. It comprises
three dimensions: rehearsal, control and emotional
inhibition. Physical symptoms were measured by Pennebaker
Inventory of Limbic Languidness (PILL, Pennebaker, 1982),
which measures two groups of physical symptoms,
respiratory and nonrespiratory symptoms. It was
hypothesized that physical symptoms are not only the result
of the main effects of personality dimensions or dimensions
of emotional control but partly the result of the interactions
of the two groups of dimensions, i.e. personality
characteristics and emotional control mechanisms. The
results of hierarchical regression analyses indicate that from
Eysenck's personality dimensions only neuroticism has main
positive effects on all groups of physical symptoms, while
from the dimensions of emotional control only control has
main effects on the less intensive symptoms of respiratory
infections. However, interactions of control and rehearsal
with neuroticism and psychoticism have significant effects on
respiratory as well as on nonrespiratory symptoms, while the
interaction between extraversion and control predicts only
nonrespiratory symptoms. The results obtained were
explained by physiological mechanisms through which
psychological processes influence the occurrence of physical
symptoms.
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16247
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Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2004.
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