Personality characteristics in MS patients: The role of avoidant personality

Mohamadi, Amin; Davoodi-Makinejad, Mahsa; Azimi, Amirreza; Nafissi, Shahriar

doi:10.1016/j.clineuro.2016.02.035

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“…Conversely, when they used the avoidance and social‐support coping strategies, their QoL was lower. These results have been previously described in different contexts: not only among patients with cancer, such as gliomas and breast cancer, but also among patients with noncancer‐related but severe diseases and disorders, such multiple sclerosis, kidney disease requiring hemodialysis, schizophrenia, and severe depression . This finding encourages a systematic assessment of patient and caregiver coping styles to identify individuals who do not adopt healthy coping strategies and to offer targeted psychological interventions .…”

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Dyadic effects of coping strategies, time perspectives, and personality on the quality of life of cancer patients and their caregivers

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Dyadic effects of coping strategies, time perspectives, and personality on the quality of life of cancer patients and their caregivers

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“…Positive coping personality was both positively associated with QoL and inversely correlated with the UPDRS ( 21 – 23 ). Similar results were found in other neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease (AD) ( 24 ) or multiple sclerosis (MS) ( 25 ).…”

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confidence: 83%

Patient and Family Caregiver's Neuroticism and Conscientiousness Personality in Relation to Quality of Life of Patient With Parkinson's Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study Neuroticism and Conscientiousness Personality in Relation to QoL of Patient With PD

Meng

Tan

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Background: Personality impacts life expectancy and comprehensive treatment efficacy for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). However, current research fails to involve the family caregiver's personality despite significant external support provided by family caregivers. This study explored neuroticism and conscientiousness personality factors of the patient and family caregiver associated with quality of life (QoL) of PD patients.Methods: 134 couples of patients presenting with PD and their family caregivers that met inclusion criteria, were recruited for this cross-sectional study at Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital from October 2015 to 2017. The Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire-39 Items (PDQ-39) for QoL, including the physical component summary (PCS) and mental component summary (MCS), the Neuroticism Extraversion Openness Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) for neuroticism and conscientiousness personalities, and the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) for PD severity questionnaires were employed. Multivariate stepwise linear regression determined the contributions of demographic, clinical and personality variables in PDQ-39, PCS, and MCS.Results: PD patients and neuroticism were significantly associated with total PDQ-39, PCS, and MCS. Additionally, conscientiousness was significantly associated with PDQ-39 and PCS. After adding neuroticism and caregiver conscientiousness personality, the importance of neuroticism for the QoL model dramatically decreased, and caregiver conscientiousness personality was associated with lower scores in total PDQ-39 and PCS.Conclusion: We revealed a significant association between neuroticism and physical or mental status of PD patients; however, this association decreased when caregiver conscientiousness was added to the model. Moreover, conscientiousness of patients and caregivers were associated with improved QoL.

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“…In particular, personality aspects have been depicted in MS, according to several studies (Invernizzi et al, 1988; Merkelbach et al, 2003; Fishman et al, 2004; Incerti et al, 2015; Schreiber et al, 2015; Mohamadi et al, 2016; Strober, 2016; Zarbo et al, 2016), even if some of them focused only on euphoric symptoms and emotional lability (Feinstein, 2004). Moreover, recent findings suggest a possible role of personality even in clinical neuroscience of MS (Benedict et al, 2013).…”

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“…Between them, it is worthwhile mentioning: Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI, Abbate-Daga et al, 2007; Fazekas et al, 2013; Verdolini et al, 2015), Neo Personality Inventory (NEO-PI; Krampe et al, 2008; Berry and Drummond, 2014; Incerti et al, 2015), Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory III (MCMI-III; Mohamadi et al, 2016), Eyesenk Personality Questionnaire (EPQ; Aaseth et al, 2011), and the Iowa Scale of Personality Change (ISPC; Waldron et al, 2014). …”

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Cognitive-constructivist Approach in Medical Settings: The Use of Personal Meaning Questionnaire for Neurological Patients’ Personality Investigation

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Objective: The cognitive-constructivist psychotherapy approach considers the self as a continuous regulation process between present and past experience, in which attributions of meaning is characterized by the use of internal rules. In this conception, everyone would be driven by a specific inner coherence called Personal Meaning Organization (PMO). Such approach has never been applied to neurological patients by means of ad hoc developed tools. We performed an explorative study aimed to characterize personality styles in different neurological conditions within the theoretical framework of cognitive-constructivist model.Materials and Methods: Three groups of neurological patients (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Multiple Sclerosis, Primary Headache) and a sample of healthy participants, each composed by 15 participants, for a total of 60 participants, were recruited. The Personal Meaning Questionnaire (PMQ), an Italian questionnaire assessing PMOs construct, and other clinical tools for psychological and quality of life assessment were administered to all subjects.Results: The main finding concerned the detection, across all clinical conditions, of a higher prevalence of phobic personality style, with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis showing a relevant prevalence of such PMO with respect to all other neurological conditions and controls. However, with respect to controls, in all clinical conditions, PMQ highlighted a tendency, even if not statistically significant, to codify experience by means of specific cognitive and emotional patterns.Conclusion: Our findings represent the first contribution towards understanding the personality profiles of patients affected by neurological conditions according to cognitive-constructivist theory.

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Personality characteristics in MS patients: The role of avoidant personality

Cited by 14 publications

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Dyadic effects of coping strategies, time perspectives, and personality on the quality of life of cancer patients and their caregivers

Dyadic effects of coping strategies, time perspectives, and personality on the quality of life of cancer patients and their caregivers

Patient and Family Caregiver's Neuroticism and Conscientiousness Personality in Relation to Quality of Life of Patient With Parkinson's Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study Neuroticism and Conscientiousness Personality in Relation to QoL of Patient With PD

Cognitive-constructivist Approach in Medical Settings: The Use of Personal Meaning Questionnaire for Neurological Patients’ Personality Investigation

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