Temperament and character dimensions in patients with atopic dermatitis

Abstract

The aim of this study was to assess the personality traits of young male patients with atopic dermatitis (AD), and to examine the correlations between temperament and character dimensions with clinical and other psychological factors. Fifty young adult male AD patients and 83 healthy controls were examined using the temperament and character inventory, the Beck depression inventory and the state-trait anxiety inventory. The AD patients scored higher on harm avoidance and lower on reward dependence, self-directedness and cooperativeness than the healthy controls. The illness duration and anxiety correlated negatively with the self-directedness score, and depression correlated negatively with reward dependence and the persistence scores in AD patients. These results suggest that AD patients have distinctive temperament and character dimensions compared to healthy controls. Moreover, illness duration and anxiety might be associated with some personality problems, and some temperament dimensions (e.g. reward dependence, persistence) may be linked to depressive symptoms in AD patients.

Cloninger's Temperament and Character Dimension of Personality in Patients with Asthma

“…Although Fernandes et al [10] used NEO-PI-R to assess personality in their study, their report of high neuroticism scores was consistent with our finding of higher HA scores in patients with asthma. The personality pattern showing higher HA and lower SD scores was consistent with previous studies conducted on patients with other psychosomatic disorders [22,39,40]. It appears that this pattern is dependent on the chronic nature of the disease as commonly seen in other psychosomatic disorders.…”

Behavioral Inhibition Is Associated With Airway Hyperresponsiveness but not Atopy in a Monkey Model of Asthma

“…Our inability to find relationships between inhibition and atopy suggests that behavioral inhibition may not be related to the allergic component of asthma, a suggestion that is at variance with other reports described above that did find relationships between inhibition-related measures and atopy (19–21). The results are, however, consistent with the initial study by Kim et al (2).…”

“…The relation of inhibition to atopy, however, is unclear. On the one hand, studies that included measures of behavioral inhibition suggest there might be a relationship for measures related to atopy, such as hay fever (19), eczema (20), and dermatitis (21). On the other hand, while Kim et al (2; described above) reported that children with asthma were more likely to show inhibition, control children that had eczema, allergic rhinitis, or both, did not show this temperamental pattern.…”

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