MMPI‐2 Profiles in Chronic Daily Headache and Their Relationship to Anxiety Levels and Accompanying Symptoms

Mongini, Franco; Ibertis, Francesca; Barbalonga, Erika; Raviola, Fabio

doi:10.1046/j.1526-4610.2000.00070.x

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“…Three-way ANOVA detected main significant effects of group (F [4,225] . Two-way ANOVA did not detect significant differences in impulsive sensation seeking, activity or sociability scores with respect to either group or gender.…”

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“…1,2]. The results with widely accepted questionnaires like the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory [3,4], Freiburg Personality Inventory [5], Eysenck Personality Questionnaire [6,7] and Cloninger's seven-factor model of Temperament and Character Inventory [8,9] point to elevated anxiety, neuroticism or harm avoidance in patients with migraine, most of whom do not experience aura. In addition, an increased rate of depression has also been reported in these sufferers [10,11].…”

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Personality Traits in Migraine and Tension-Type Headaches: A Five-Factor Model Study

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Although abnormal personality traits have been frequently reported in patients with primary headaches, the overlaps between these domains need a clear standard definition, for example, by a five-factor personality model. Moreover, personality abnormalities in patients with episodic tension-type headache (ETH) and migraine with aura (MA) are less well studied. Therefore, we administered Zuckerman-Kuhlman’s Personality Questionnaire to 72 patients suffering from chronic tension-type headaches (CTH), 33 with ETH, 15 with MA and 57 with migraine without aura (MO), as well as 58 healthy subjects. Depressive trends were measured with Plutchik-van Praag’s Depression Inventory. Compared to healthy controls, the CTH, ETH and MO groups showed significantly greater neuroticism-anxiety and depression. In addition, the MO group scored significantly higher on aggression-hostility than healthy controls. No abnormal personality traits were found in patients with MA. This study, from the perspective of a five-factor model, confirms most previous reports about personality in patients with primary headaches and establishes elevated aggression-hostility only in MO sufferers.

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Personality Traits in Migraine and Tension-Type Headaches: A Five-Factor Model Study

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“…Using the MMPI in migraine patients, some authors found normal profiles or, at least, a lower scale elevation than in patients with chronic tensiontype headache or with migraine and tension-type headache superimposed [3,5,6], while others found a marked elevation of several MMPI scales and, in female migraine patients, a typical V configuration of the neurotic triad of the MMPI (with high scores of hypochondria and hysteria and depression score still high but lower than those of the two other scales) [7]. Using the Eysenck personality questionnaire, higher scores of psychoticism were found [13].…”

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“…Besides autonomic symptoms, a number of other behavioral and somatic symptoms may be observed in women with migraine and when migraine transforms into a chronic daily headache [1][2][3][4][5]. This issue also relates to the problem whether an association exists between personality changes and migraine.…”

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Do accompanying symptoms in women with migraine allow distinction between two separate patient groups?

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We studied 46 untreated women with migraine without aura (mean age, 38±11 years) consecutively sent to the Headache and Facial Pain J Headache Pain (2002) 3:27-32 © Springer-Verlag 2002 Do accompanying symptoms in women with migraine allow distinction between two separate patient groups? Abstract We assessed the prevalence of a number of behavioral and somatic symptoms in women with migraine and investigated whether they were related to personality. In 46 women with migraine, record was taken of 26 symptoms, the MMPI and STAI questionnaires were administered and a psychological assessment was carried out with a semistructured interview using SCID, Italian version. Symptom data were processed through a self-organizing map (SOM) system and Kmeans cluster analysis. Since two patient clusters were obtained, data relative to headache characteristics aand the MMPI and STAI scores were assessed separately for each group. Group 2 had a significantly higher prevalence of several symptoms, of depressive disorders and higher MMPI and of STAI scores with respect to group 1, while the headache characteristics were substantially the same. It is concluded that a distinction can be made between two categories of female migraine patients with scarce or abundant accompanying symptoms. This difference does not seem related to the headache characteristics but, rather, to the patients' personality and psychopathologic symptoms.

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“…Use of the Zuckerman-Khulman’s or the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire revealed that migraine without aura is characterized by high degrees of neuroticism as well as tension-type headache [6, 26, 27]. Similarly, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory showed a personality profile characterized by high scores on the neurotic scale (hypochondria, depression, hysteria) in migraine patients [28]. …”

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Anger, Depression and Personality Dimensions in Patients with Migraine without Aura

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Fassino

Giudice

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Background: Migraine without aura causes acute and chronic pain and partially compromises patients’ social functioning and work performance. Over the past years, psychiatric comorbidities were frequently observed in these patients, together with coping difficulties and typical personality traits. The aim of this study was to identify whether migraine patients and controls share distinctive personality traits. Methods: 105 consecutive patients suffering from migraine without aura referred to the Headache Center of Turin University were enrolled in the study and compared to a control group of 79 healthy subjects. Patients and controls completed several psychometric questionnaires, including the Temperament and Character Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory and the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory. Results: Patients suffering from migraine show more depressive symptoms, difficult anger management with a tendency to hypercontrol, and a distinctive personality profile with high harm avoidance, high persistence and low self-directedness. When a logistic regression was performed, the only significant predictors of migraine were temperament variables. Conclusions: The results suggest that the personality traits and psychosomatic mechanisms of migraine patients may make them vulnerable to stress and less skilled in coping with pain. These traits correlate with dysregulated neurotransmitter systems which may also be part of the psychobiological components of personality, depressive disorders and migraine itself.

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MMPI‐2 Profiles in Chronic Daily Headache and Their Relationship to Anxiety Levels and Accompanying Symptoms

Cited by 33 publications

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Personality Traits in Migraine and Tension-Type Headaches: A Five-Factor Model Study

Personality Traits in Migraine and Tension-Type Headaches: A Five-Factor Model Study

Do accompanying symptoms in women with migraine allow distinction between two separate patient groups?

Anger, Depression and Personality Dimensions in Patients with Migraine without Aura

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