Cechy osobowości typu D a funkcjonowanie w chorobie pacjentów ze schorzeniami przewlekłymi
Journal Title: Polskie Forum Psychologiczne - Year 2016, Vol 21, Issue 2
Abstract
Personality type D is a specific construct, it is characterized by two dimensions: the tendency to experience negative emotions - depression, anxiety, anger or hostility, and a tendency to social withdrawal. Recent studies point to its important role in the pathogenesis and course of many diseases. In the present work the problem ofthe occurrence oftype D personality stress in patients chronic ally for a number ofmanifestations ofthe functioning ofthe disease: acceptance of illness, beliefs about the location of health control and health behaviors. The subjects: A total of 204 people together chronically ill, including 135 (66%) women and 69 (34%) men with a mean age of 49.56 years (SD = 13.13). In this study, the following psychological methods: Scale DS-14 to D-type personality assessment and Acceptance of Illness Scale - AIS, Multidimensional Health Locus ofControl Scale - MHLC-B and Inventory Behavioral Health - IZZ . The subjects were characterized by varying the intensity of the analyzed variables, the average intensity of illness acceptance and attention to health behavior and frequent locating beliefs about health control in yourself or other people, and less frequently in random circumstances. The men did not differ significantly from women in the acceptance of the disease, type D personality and its components as well as beliefs about the location of health control, while they differed significantly in relation to their health behaviors, particularly in the field of prevention, health practices and healthy eating habits, of which women care more The intensity of type D personality differentiated level of acceptance of the illness health behaviors, particularly healthy eating habits and a positive mental attitude, and beliefs concerning the location of health control in event of accidental. Level D did not differentiate the characteristics of prevention behaviors and health practices and two other beliefs about the location of health control - in themselves and in other people. The importance of personality type D for the functioning of in illness is varied.
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Małgorzata Anna Basińska, Anna Andruszkiewicz
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