title: [Organisation of defence mechanisms in patients suffering from myocardial infarction (author's transl)].
abstract: This study was performed to determine the nature and organisation of specific defense mechanism in myocardial infarct patterns as compared to controls. It is also aimed at describing the organisation of these defenses and their relation to anxiety, depression and aggressivity. The samples consist in two populations of 112 male subjects with and without infarct and matched for age and socio-economic status. The EMO questionnaire of G.O. Baehr and M.E. Baehr and the COPE form from the FIRO scales of Schutz were used for psychological evaluation. The results show that the myocardial patients use more turning-against-self and that the other defence mechanisms do not discriminate between the subgroups. Furthermore, the scores for anxiety, depression, inferiority, hostility are similar in both groups. The patients state less sexual problems and use less fantasies than do normal controles. However, they use more somatic concern, but not significantly as compared to controls. This analysis was also concerned with the correlations between these defenses and affects. Furthermore, both subgroups were subdivided in three subsamples according to the score for turning-against self (high, median, low). Turning-against-self is associated with hostility in the patients while this mechanism is associated with a higher susceptibility to dayly events in normal subjects.
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept
vernacular_title: Organisation des mécanismes de défense chez des patients atteints d'un infarctus du myocarde.