Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine 1990;11(5):1-14.
Published online May 1, 1990.

천식환자에서 스트레스와 성격특성 (Strem and Personality Characteristics in the Patient with asthma)

윤방부(Youn Bang Bu),박병일(Park Byung Il),이선권(Lee Sun Kwon),이상현(Lee Sang Hyeon),민성길(Sung Kil Min)

연세대학교의과대학 가정의학교실 연세대학교의과대학 정신과학교실

Abstract

The authors investigated the interaction between perception of the social stressor and personality characteristics in the patient with asthma. Among 91 patients with asthma, 33 were grouped intrinsic, 39 were grouped extrinsic and 246 healthy persons participated in the study as control. Although patients with asthma were not different from control in LCU(Life Change Unit) and BEPSI(Brief Encounter Psychosocial Instrument) score, intrinsic group didn't perceive the stress proportional to the amount of external life change. Intrinsic group had the personality trait showed lower ego strength, less stable emotion compared with extrinsic and control. The personality trait was more prominent in the patients with long duration. In intrinsic group, patient with the higher ego strenght and more stable emotion, experienced the stronger stress to the same amount of external life changes.
The excessive perception of stress in the early stage of intrinsic asthma seems to be a factor that makes the personality trait clear.