[The psychological characteristics of patients with vitiligo].
Psychologic examinations, using the MMPI (a Multifactorial Method for Personality Investigations), of 74 patients with common vitiligo, have revealed impeded social adaptation in 63.5% and accentuation of the characterological personality traits in 29.7% of the examinees. The detected psychologic disorders of a borderline type are explained by both the presence of a manifest cosmetic defect--vitiligo, and by the individual characteristics of the patients--sex, age, type of psychologic reaction. Depigmentation and psychoemotional disorders are closely related, one stimulating the other.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D010556:Personality Tests; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D014820:Vitiligo / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*
Psikhologicheskie osobennosti bol'nykh vitiligo.