Alopecia areata: a specific personality?

Carrizosa, A.; Fernandez-Abascal, Blanca; García-Hernández, M.J.; Ruiz‐Doblado, Sergio

doi:10.1111/j.1365-4632.2005.02277.x

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“…Although numerous studies have investigated psychopathology in patients with AA and the effects of psychopathology on the symptom severity of AA, few studies have investigated personality traits in patients with AA. Carrizosa et al . reported that patients with AA did not have different personality traits compared with those of patients who had other skin diseases.…”

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Distinct temperament and character profiles in first onset vitiligo but not in alopecia areata

Erfan

Albayrak

Yanik

et al. 2014

The Journal of Dermatology

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Alopecia areata (AA) and vitiligo (V) are diseases that are correlated with psychiatric disorders before, during and after diagnosis. The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) is a well-established approach for investigating personality traits in various psychosomatic diseases. The aim of this study is to compare and investigate the differences in the TCI between patients with first onset AA, patients with V and healthy controls (HC). Participants in the study included 42 patients with first onset AA, 50 adult patients with V and 60 HC who had no history or diagnoses of psychiatric or dermatological disorders. All participants were assessed with the TCI and the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI). Among the temperament traits, the extravagance, disorderliness and total novelty-seeking scores were lower, and the worry and pessimism scores were higher in patients with V compared with patients with AA and the HC. The mean score of the enlightened second nature and the total self-directedness score of the character traits were higher in patients with V compared with patients with AA and the HC group. In the AA group, there was a negative correlation only between the reward dependence total score and the DLQI score. This study suggests that patients with first onset V have a distinct temperament, such as being unenthusiastic and unemotional, and character profiles, such as worry and pessimism, independent of their psychiatric comorbidities, and patients with AA do not have a different personality from the non-affected population.

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Distinct temperament and character profiles in first onset vitiligo but not in alopecia areata

Erfan

Albayrak

Yanik

et al. 2014

The Journal of Dermatology

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“…Güleç et al 1 reported that certain personality traits can modulate the onset of AA. Additionally, Carrizosa et al 2 used Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory to show that AA patients express more depressive, hysterical and anxious feelings than healthy subjects. However, Alfani et al 3 recently reported that patients with AA do not have specific personality traits, as shown through an assessment using the International Personality Disorder Examination.…”

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