title: [Relation of certain psychological factors with degenerative diseases and disorders of the locomotor system].
abstract: The incidence of neuroticism, extroversion-introversion and astenic personality characteristics was studied in three groups of 50 subjects each: controls, rheumatic patients in whom subjective complaints and objective medical status of the locomotor system were not analogous, and rheumatic patients in whom complaints and objective medical status of the locomotor system were analogous. All subjects were examined by a rheumatologist and interviewed by a psychologist. The psychological methods applied were: short interview, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and Cornell Index. According to the results of univariate analysis of variance the group of subjects with inadequate complaints had significantly higher scores on the scales of neuroticism and astenic personality characteristics than the control group and the group of subjects with adequate subjective complaints. The results of this work indicate that some health complaints can be partly attributed to superposition of symptoms and neurotic personality characteristics.
authors.affiliation: Institut za medicinska istrazivanja i medicinu rada Sveucilista u Zagrebu.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vilke-Milosević
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Krapac
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Povezanost nekih psihickih faktora s degenerativnim bolestima i tegobama lokomotornog sustava.