Related Experiment Videos
[Personality in patients with panic disorder]
C Sanz-Carrillo1, J J García-Campayo, A Sánchez Blanque
1Centro Neuropsiquiátrico, Virgen del Carmen, Zaragoza.
Abstract:
Fourty-five patients diagnosed ad Panic Disorder and forty-five control patients are studied. Personality traits are assessed by Cattel's 16 PF. Test and several subscales derived from MMPI (dependence, repression, hypersensibility, etc.). Anxiety is measured by Zung's Anxiety Scale. Panic disorder patients show higher "dependence", "inferiority", "hypersensibility", low "ego strength", "parmia", "shrewdness", "self-sentiment integration" and high "ergic tension". In addition, male patients show significative differences in "affectothymia", "self-sufficiency", "self-sentiment integration" and "invia".