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- Title
Eysenck personality and psychosocial status of adult patients with malocclusion
- Authors
Zhang, Li; Liu, Xiang; Zheng, Gen-Jian; Zhou, Lan; Lin, Dian-Yue; Wang, Xiao-Dan; He, Hong
- Abstract
Abstract: Objective: To evaluate the personality and psychosocial status of adult malocclusion patients through the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90). Methods: The EPQ and the SCL-90 were administered to 348 adult respondents with Angle''s Class I, II, III malocclusion and normal occlusion. Personality and psychosocial traits were analyzed and compared among the groups. Results: Patients in Angle''s Class I, II and III groups scored lower on the EPQ-E and higher on the EPQ-N than those in the normal occlusion group, whereas patients in the Class II group scored higher on the EPQ-P. The mean scores of Class I, II and III groups were significantly higher than those of the normal group on somatization, obsessive-compulsiveness, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, and paranoid ideation. All SCL-90 scores were significantly positively correlated with EPQ-N. Psychoticism and neuroticism scores of female respondents were higher than those of male respondents. The impact of education was greatest on the EPQ-P and the EPQ-E of adult personality, whereas the impact of deformity was greatest on the EPQ-N of adult personality. Conclusions: Personality and psychosocial status show differences in adult patients with Class I, II, III malocclusion and normal occlusion and can be influenced by gender, deformity, age and education.
- Subjects
MAUDSLEY personality inventory; MALOCCLUSION; MENTAL depression; SYMPTOM Checklist-90; SOMATIZATION disorder; ANXIETY; NEUROTICISM; PATIENTS
- Publication
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2012, Vol 5, Issue 2, p151
- ISSN
1995-7645
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/S1995-7645(12)60015-7