Personality Characteristics of Women with Fibromyalgia and of Women with Chronic Neck, Shoulder, or Low Back Complaints in Terms of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and Defense Mechanism Technique Modified
| Autor: | Tomas Trygg, Toomas Timpka, Elisabeth Rosenlund, Gunnar Lundberg, Björn Gerdle |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Extraversion and introversion business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Chronic pain Hysteria medicine.disease Rheumatology Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Schizophrenia Fibromyalgia Medicine Personality Anxiety medicine.symptom business Psychiatry media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain. 10:33-55 |
| ISSN: | 1540-7012 1058-2452 |
| Popis: | Objectives: To compare personality features of fibro-myalgia patients with those of a disease control group with regional pain.Methods: A group of 33 women with fibromyalgia [FMS-group] was compared on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory [MMPI] and the Defense Mechanism Technique modified [DMTm] with 31 women [C-group] without this diagnosis who had localized chronic pain in their neck, shoulder, and/or low back areas and were very similar in chronological age, intelligence, and basic personality patterns.Results: As hypothesized the FMS-group scored higher than the C-group on the MMPI-scales of Hypochondriasis, Depression, and Hysteria. They also scored higher on Admission of symptoms, Psych-asthenia, Anxiety, Schizophrenia, Social introversion, and a number of nonclinical subscales. The differences were not found to be due to differences in pain intensity. The only statistically significant difference in DMTm between the groups was that of FMS patients more often reporting the projected self... |
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