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PubMed1983

Premorbid personality of Parkinson patients.

In a preliminary study 28 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (14 males, 14 females; mean age 67 years, mean disease duration 9 years) were tested with the GIESSEN-TEST (GT) personality inventory in an attempt to define distinctive premorbid personality features of Parkinson's disease. Patients and close relatives were asked to fill out the test questionnaires with a retrospective judgement of healthy times; at the same time patients and relatives were interviewed for premorbid habits and personality traits of the patients. The results obtained suggest that parkinsonian patients are of an introverted and anancastic premorbid personality type. In the GIESSEN-TEST (GT) marked trends toward "overcontrol"; "depressiveness", "positive social resonance", and "social impotency" were observed. The results are discussed and related to findings of distinctive premorbid smoking and drinking habits of parkinsonian patients.

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PubMed1978

Effects of scoring norms on adolescent psychiatric drug users' and nonusers' MMPI profiles.

The present study compared the effects of scoring norms on adolescent psychiatric inpatient drug users' and nonusers' MMPI profiles. The results indicated that regardless of drug usage or nonusage the application of adolescent norms yielded less pathological profiles than did the use of adult norms. A further finding was that Scale O, Social Introversion, is the only clinical scale from differentiated users' from nonusers' profiles.

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PubMed1982

[Psychometric results in patients with Klinefelter syndrome].

In psychodiagnostic investigation 12 Klinefelter-patients and 12 psychosomatic patients matched for age and socioeconomic status were compared. Our results are generally in agreement with the observations in recent research concerning some personality traits. 1. The intelligence of Klinefelter-patients rather meets the mark of practical than educational standards. Therefore these patients quite often fail at school, which otherwise is adequate to the level of their general-IQ. 2. Klinefelter-patients generally score low in the masculinity-scale. Equally remarkable is the tendency towards introversion, shyness, inhibition and an unstable emotionality.

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PubMed1981

[Contribution to the objective evaluation of the personality features of the colitis patient (author's transl)].

Before becoming in-patients in the psychosomatic department 26 patients (male and female) with ulcerative colitis were subjected to a series of personality tests (MMPI, FPI, GT, EPI) and compared with a normal control group. According to these tests and in psychopathological aspects the colitis patients deviated from the normal control group. The colitis patients showed more anxiousness and neuroticism and a tendency to introversion. The psychological results established by the tests and the psychopathological findings coincided especially in respect to the depressiveness. In connection with the inhibited depressiveness the question arises, whether the aggressive modalities, which can be substantiated by internal aspects but not optimally by the tests, can be objectively evaluated.

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PubMed1994

[Psychological differences between ulcer and non-ulcer dyspeptic patients].

The existence of differences in the psychological profile of 39 endoscopically evaluated patients with ulcer (U) and non ulcer (NU) dyspepsia were examined. There were 21 U and 18 NU subjects. Cigarette smoking, intake of alcohol, coffee, mate, aspirin and NSAID were recorded, but there were no significant differences between the two groups. Personality traits were determined by the Rorschach Test, considering psychological profile (introversive, extroversive, self-restrained), impulse and emotion control (do not allow their expression, impulsive, adequately conveyed) and level of social adaptation (low, normal, high). U and NU subjects experienced a similar number of potentially stressful life events. However, U patients perceived their events more negatively. Although no one type of "ulcer personality" was found consistently, ulcer patients tended to be more introversive and they had a better social adaptation than NU.

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[Constancy or change in personality in the elderly? Findings and discussion of a controversy].

Research on personality development in the second half of life is reviewed, making a distinction between studies following a trait-oriented and studies using a process-oriented approach. A methodological and theoretical discussion of results not only explains differences in results, it also allows to conclude that the two approaches describe and explain complementary facets of the field. A synthesis between approaches is proposed in order to understand part of the controversy on constancy and change of personality development.

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PubMed1977

[Relationship between (perceived) maternal rearing behavior and personality characteristics of behaviorally disturbed children and juveniles].

A survey of the literature on methodological problems associated with, and results of, the diagnosis of parental educational attitudes and practices as viewed and experienced especially by those receiving education is followed by a report on an investigation of the maternal educational behavior perceived by behaviorally disturbed children and juveniles of male sex. Correlative results obtained from the evaluation of questionnaires confirm the interrelation of disturbed (maternal) emotional relations to children and abnormal behavior shown by children. The inclusion in the diagnostic practice of reports given by those receiving education on the educational behavior shown by parents or other persons in whom the right of education is vested is considered to be a necessary and useful supplementary method.

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PubMed1996

The erroneous diagnosis of malingering in a military setting.

The paper describes difficulties in diagnosing individuals from different cultures, focusing specifically on cases of erroneous diagnosis of malingering among ultraorthodox Jewish inductees. During one year, 24 inductees diagnosed as malingerers by several army psychiatrists were re-examined by the authors and subsequently re-diagnosed as psychotic, suffering from a personality disorder, or mentally retarded. Factors underlying the misdiagnosis are discussed.

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