title: [Overt and latent restlessness and the awareness of the meaning of life in patients with valvular heart disease].
abstract: By means of R. B. Cattell Self-Knowledge Sheet and Crumbough and Miholick Scale of the Awareness of the Meaning of Life, 25 patients were examined, prepared for surgical correction of valvular heart disease. By means of R.B. Cattell Self-Knowledge Sheet a group was isolated of patients showing high overt restlessness (OR) and high latent restlessness (LR). It was shown that the personalities of these two groups of patients demonstrated numerous common features, but very significant differences also existed. The patients with high latent restlessness (LR) demonstrated strong emotional tension caused by frustration, feeling of inferiority with low self-estimation, as well as many conflicts at super ego level, but they had strong defensive mechanisms of own personality. The patients with high overt restlessness (OR) revealed high degree of intensification of the feeling of isolation, loneliness, and existential emptiness resulting from the lost feeling of the meaning of further existence with the progress of disease. The results of our studies are guidelines for the choice of psychotherapeutic management of patients qualified for operation of valvular heart disease.
authors.affiliation: Katedry i Kliniki Kardiologii Ak. Med., Lublinie.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nasiłowska-Barud
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Markiewicz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002416:Cattell Personality Factor Questionnaire; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011595:Psychomotor Agitation / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept
vernacular_title: Niepokój jawnny i ukryty a poczucie sensu zycia u chorych z wadami serca.