Personality Change as Defensive Responses of Patients Evaluated for Liver Transplant
| Autor: | Franco Bonaguidi, M. Giovanna Trivella, Franco Mosca, Franco Filipponi, Antonio L'Abbate, Claudio Michelassi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Male Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Medical staff Patients Personality Inventory media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology Personality Disorders Severity of Illness Index 03 medical and health sciences Liver disease 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 16PF Questionnaire Personality 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 16 Personality factor questionnaire General Psychology Personality change Defense Mechanisms media_common Extraversion and introversion 05 social sciences Middle Aged medicine.disease Liver Transplantation 030227 psychiatry Anxiety Female medicine.symptom Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1558-691X 0033-2941 |
| DOI: | 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.3c.1211 |
| Popis: | Patients affected by endstage liver disease and awaiting liver transplant suffer very stressful conditions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the personality and behavioral responses of a group of liver transplant candidates, 95 men ( M age 50 yr.) and of a group of 18 normal men ( M age 49 yr.). The 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire of Cattell, and the PSY Inventory for Behavioral Assessment were administered to assess personality and behavior. On the 16PF Questionnaire, patients had significantly different mean scores from normal subjects on Scale B– (low mental capacity), G (conformity), N (shrewdness), and Q1– (conservatism). They also showed a somewhat lower but not a statistically significant mean on Scale E (submissiveness). In addition, on the four second-order factors of the 16PF (Anxiety, Control, Pathemia, and Extraversion) patients had a significantly higher mean on Control. With respect to PSY Inventory factors, patients showed impairment in energy, sleep, sexual disturbances, and obsessive behaviors. It appears these patients with endstage liver disease, who were evaluated for liver transplant, showed psychological regressive functioning, i.e., high control and dependency on medical staff, submissiveness, which are interpretable as defensive responses to upcoming transplant. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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