title: Experience of anger in patients with irritable bowel syndrome in Romania.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Anger is strongly associated with the coping style, personality, interpersonal conflicts and quality of life. Increased research is being focused on the negative impact of anger on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Certain psychological areas such as anger have not been investigated in Romanian patients. The present study aims to determine the basal differences in experiencing anger between IBS patients and controls.
  
  
  METHODS
  We examined the State-Trait anger in 60 subjects with IBS and 45 controls. The socio-demographic data and the State-Trait Anger Inventory were administered in individual sessions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  evidenced that the IBS group had high mean scores for trait anger. No significant differences between the groups were detected on state anger.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Higher levels of trait anger characterize IBS patients when compared to controls and this may be associated with symptoms. These findings are discussed within the context of other data suggesting that trait anger contributes to development and evolution of IBS, perhaps through modulation of the colonic motor activity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: Mihaela Fadgyas
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Stănculete
authors.affiliation: Prof Dr Octavian Fodor Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania ; Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pojoga
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: Dan Lucian
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Dumitraşcu
keywords: anger; brain-gut axis; irritable bowel syndrome