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Questionnaire about psychology/disease correlation-I.

D Dragoş¹, D G Ojog, O M Pănescu

¹Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania. dordrag@drdorindragos.ro

Journal of Medicine and Life

|April 21, 2011

Summary

This study introduces a new tool to link specific psychological traits with common internal disorders, finding that health and security concerns are closely related. Specific worries, particularly about finances and living situations, are key indicators of security needs.

Keywords:

personality inventory psychological predisposition to disease psychological profile

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Area of Science:

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Internal Medicine
Psychometrics

Background:

Existing personality inventories often assess overly general psychological traits, potentially obscuring nuanced associations with specific diseases.
There is a need for more precise tools to identify psychological features that correlate with common internal disorders.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel assessment tool for exploring correlations between specific psychological features and prevalent internal disorders.
To investigate the relationship between psychological domains and internal health conditions.

Main Methods:

Utilized two questionnaires with synonymous item pairs to ensure response consistency.
Items were categorized into four domains: existence concerns (health, fear, finances, lodging), social interaction, action/will, and external preoccupation.
Analysis focused on correlations within the first domain (existence concerns) from 3138 respondents.

Main Results:

General formulations best reflect health concerns.
Security desire is strongly linked to worries about money and lodging, but inversely related to eagerness in financial dealings.
Specific fears (future, darkness, loneliness) and specific worries about safety/security are more indicative than general concerns.
Precaution and orderliness best signal a desire for stability, while cleanliness and attachment are weaker indicators.

Conclusions:

Health and security concerns demonstrate a consistent linkage.
Specific psychological worries, particularly concerning finances and security, are more revealing than general concerns for assessing internal disorder correlations.
The developed consistency evaluation system uses correlated synonymous items with low error probability (≤10⁻²⁰⁰).