Original scientific paper
The relationship be1ween selected psychic factors and degenerative diseases and disorders of the locomotor system
M. Vilke-Milošević
; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
L. Krapac
; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The incidence of neuroticism, extroversion - introversion and astenic personality characteristics was studied in three groups of 50 subjects each: controls, rheumatic patients in whom subjective complaints and objective medical status of the locomotor system were not analogous, and rheumatic patients in whom complaints and objective medical status of the locomotor system were analogous. Ali subjects were examined by a rheumatologist and interviewed by a psychologist. The psychological methods applied were: short interview, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and Comell Index. According to the results of univariate analysis of variance the group of subjects with inadequate complaints had significantly higher scores on the scales of neuroticism and astenic personality characteristics than the control group and the group of subjects with adequate subjective complaints. The results of this work indicate that some health complaints can be partly attributed to superposition of symptoms and neurotic personality characteristics.
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Hrčak ID:
151443
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Publication date:
26.3.1991.
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