title: [Temperament and character traits measured by temperament and character inventory (TCI) by Cloninger in patients with ischemic heart disease].
abstract: Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is one of the main causes of death and disability worldwide. This situation stimulates research of its ethiopathogenesis. The role of psychosocial factors like depression, stress is underlined. Also personality traits play an important role in this process. The aim of study was to assess temperament and character traits in a group of patients with IHD.
  
  
  METHODS
  Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) was used to determine temperament and character dimensions. Temperament traits: harm avoidance (HA), reward dependence (RD), novelty seeking (NS), persistence (P), character traits: cooperativeness (C), self-directedness (SD), self-transcendence (ST). Each of these traits has a varying number of subscales. The dimensions are determined from a 240-item questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Patients with IHD obtained higher scores in HA dimension of the TCI questionnaire. The study group achieved lower score in a subscale of NS called extravagance (NS3), and higher score of C dimension called compassion (C4).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The intensity of temperament and character traits are different in a group of patients with IHD in comparison with the control group especially in dimensions of HA, NS3 and C4. Variables that differentiated the study group were also sex, age and years of education.
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stetkiewicz-Lewandowicz
authors.forename: Alina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Borkowska
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sobów
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015984:Causality; D002605:Character; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013694:Temperament / Q000145:classification*