Life satisfaction and adjustment in lithium-treated affective patients in remission
| Autor: | Netta Horesh, Elie Lepkifker, S. Floru |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Bipolar Disorder Psychometrics Lithium (medication) media_common.quotation_subject Personal Satisfaction Lithium Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Psychiatry media_common Depressive Disorder Psychological Tests Social adaptation Life satisfaction Middle Aged medicine.disease Personality disorders Psychiatry and Mental health Feeling Psychological well-being Healthy individuals Female Psychology medicine.drug Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 78:391-395 |
| ISSN: | 1600-0447 0001-690X |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to assess life satisfaction and adjustment of lithium-treated affective patients in remission. Scores of life satisfaction and adjustment in four areas were obtained for two experimental groups of 50 unipolars and 50 bipolars and for two control groups of 50 healthy individuals and 50 patients with personality disorders. Subjects’ self-assessments and psychiatrists’ evaluations were rated using a modification of Cantril's ladder device. No significant differences were found between affective patients and healthy controls regarding life satisfaction and adjustment, whereas psychiatric controls scored significantly less on most indices. Moreover, the treating psychiatrists rated affective patients significantly higher than psychiatric controls and perceived them as actualizing their potential to a greater degree. Thus, it is concluded that neither the affective illness nor lithium as a prophylactic agent interfered with the patients’ feelings of satisfaction or with manifest functioning while in remission. |
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