Correlative analysis of the personality and psycho symptoms in undergraduates with mental disorder

doi:10.3321/j.issn:1673-8225.2004.33.019

Abstract：BACKGROUND: Personality and psycho symptoms of patiens with mental disorder are closely related. There were reports about this type of researches. However, there is very few report applying statistical methods of partial correlation analysis and typical correlation analysis into the correlative analysis between these two factors.OBJECTIVE: To provide a scientific gist for the intervention in undergraduate with mental disorder through the comprehension of the relationship between personality and psycho symptoms of undergraduates with mental disorder.DESIGN: A stratified randomised cluister-sampling investigation.SETTING: Children Health Institute of Tongji Medical College of HuazhongUniversity of Science and Technology.PARTICIPANTS: A stratified randomised cluster-sampling method was used to investigate part of the undergraduates of Wuhan Industry College with Symptoms Checklist-90(SCL-90) . Totally 138 undergraduates scored 2.3 point in more than three items were selected as subjects with mental disorder (obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, phobia, and neurasthenia).INTERVENTIONS: SCL-90 and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ)tests were conducted in the undergraduates with mental disorder. The questionnaires were completed by the testees independently and taken back on the spot.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: EPQ scores of extraversion and introversion, nervousness, psychosis and conceal, SCL-90 total average score, and the partial and typical correlation analysis of the scores in 9 items of somatization disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, sensitive haman interrelationship, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobia, crankiness and lunacy.RESULTS: The total average score of SCL-90 and score of each factor were positively correlated with the score of nervousness( r =0. 225-0. 417, P ＜ 0.05 ) . Scores of hostility, crankiness and lunacy were positively correlated with score of nervousness( r = 0. 213 - 0. 223, P ＜ 0.05). The total average score of SCL-90 and the scores of obsessive-compulsive disorder, sensitive human interrelationship and phobia were negatively correlated with the score of extraversion and introversion ( r = - 0. 167 to -0. 278, P ＜ 0. 05).The correlation between personality and scores of psycho symptoms was mainly determined by the typical variables of these two groups of variables,i. e., the correlation between sensitive human interrelationship, anxiety and nervousness( r = 0. 459, P ＜ 0.01 ), and the correlation between crankiness and lunacy( r =0. 354, P ＜ 0. 05).CONCLUSION: Undergraduates' mental disorder usually has certain personality basis. The comprehension of the interrelationship between personality and psycho symptoms provides a favourable foundation in the establishment of the effective intervention plan for undergraduates with mental disorder.