title: [Specific characteristics of Crohn disease patients--results of a cluster analysis of personality markers].
abstract: The aim of this study was to find out, if patients with Crohn's disease share some personality traits or if it makes more sense to separate them into subgroups. Therefore, 52 patients took part in a psychoanalytic interview. The interview was composed in order to check personality characteristics as they were named in the literature. However, there could not be found any specific personality traits, but a cluster analysis revealed 7 subgroups. Two larger subgroups, together 22 patients, consisted of patients with inhibited aggression, who were closely connected to their families and showed illness inciting stressful life events. Another subgroup, 11 patients, showed a marked independent, aggressive and illness-dissimulating behavior. The hypothesis of a specific personality structure has to be rejected.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Medizinischen Universität zu Lübeck.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: von Wietersheim
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012803:Sick Role; D012931:Social Environment
vernacular_title: Zur Frage der Spezifität bei Morbus-Crohn-Patienten--Ergebnisse einer Clusteranalyse über Persönlichkeitsmerkmale.