The discussion of the personality in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Jung, Lin Heui
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
The present study used Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory-2 (CPAI-2) as the assessment tool to understand the personality characteristics of patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Obsessive compulsive disorder patients, community control group, and panic disorders (PAD) patients were compared on the differences of CPAI-2 to further understand the personality characteristics of OCD patients. The participants include 50 OCD patients, 112 community controls, and 28 PA patients. Obsessive compulsive disorder and PAD patient samples come from a Taipei City psychiatric hospital along with 10 other Taipei County general hospitals. The community control sample composed of community adults in Taipei City. The study first have the psychiatrists or psychologists filled out the Diagnostic Interview Sheet (DIS) on patients to confirm with the diagnosis and the severity of their symptoms in the past two weeks; patients then filled out the CPAI-2; the community controls filled out only CPAI-2. On clinical scales, OCD group and PAD group in emotional problems factors of anxiety, depression, physical symptoms, and somatization subscales and behavior problems factors of antisocial behavior, needing for attention, paranoia subscales are significantly higher than the community control group. In addition, OCD group in adjustment problem, excitement and distortion of reality subscales are significantly higher than the community control group. In personality scales, community control group on social potency factors of novelty, extraversion vs. introversion, enterprise, and logical vs. affective orientation factors; dependability factors of practical mindedness, optimism vs. pessimism, and family orientation; accommodation factor of graciousness vs. meanness; interpersonal relatedness factors of discipline, harmony, and relationship orientation subscales are significantly higher than the OCD group. Community control group in diversity and logic vs. affective orientation subscales are significantly higher than the OCD group, while OCD group on face subscale is significantly higher than the community control group. The above results showed that some of the CPAI-2’s clinical scales and personality scales could differentiate the personality characteristics among community control, OCD and PAD patients. However, early/late onset OCD sub-types and severe/less severe sub-types show no significant differences in the clinical scales of CPAI-2, and no significant differences among the majority of personality subscales. The results of the present study thus conclude that there are some difficulties in using personality characteristics as a way to sub-categorize OCD.
Subjects
華人性格測量表-第二版（CPAI-2）
性格特徵
強迫症
Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory-2 (CPAI-2)
personality characteristics
obsessive compulsive disorder
Type
other
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