The relationship between dysfunctional cognitive attitudes and personality disorder tendency in pa-tients with somatoform disorders
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-6554.2016.08.012
- VernacularTitle:躯体形式障碍患者功能失调性认知态度与人格障碍倾向的关系
- Author:
Lixia WAN
;
Guangli LIANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Somatoform disorders;
Personality disorders;
Dysfunctional attitudes
- From:
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science
2016;25(8):728-731
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To examine the characteristics of dysfunctional attitudes in patients with so?matoform disorders and to delineate the relationship between dysfunctional attitudes and personality disorder tendency. Methods Sixty?four outpatients with somatoform disorder and 52 healthy individuals were recrui?ted and asked to complete the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire( PDQ?4) and the Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale( DAS ) for the evaluation of their personality disorder tendency and cognitive characteristics. DAS scores were compared between patient and control groups. The relationship between DAS and PDQ?4 was e?valuated by comparing DAS scores of patients with and without personality disorder tendency and by correla?ting patients’ total scores of DAS and PDQ?4. Results Patients with somatoform disorder(150.13±31.75) showed significantly higher scores of DAS than healthy controls(121.62±20.30). Moreover,patients with per?sonality disorder tendency exhibited significantly higher scores in the total score of DAS and scores of five factors including vulnerability, absorption/exclusive, compulsion, dependence and cognitive philosophy ( P<0.05) . Finally,a positive correlation was found between total scores of DAS and PDQ?4( r=0.535, P<0.01) and the correlation coefficients between the total score of DAS and Cluster A( r=0.545) and C scores( r=0.625) were significantly higher than that of Cluster B score( r=0.317).Conclusion Patients with somato?form disorders have cognitive distortion,which is correlated with personality disorder tendency.
