Research Objective: To compare the features of personal response in young patients with minor heart anomalies according to gender and severity of abnormalities. Materials and Methods: Physiological characteristics of 124 male and female (mean age — 22,16±2,42 years) have been examined by means of To...
Research Objective: To compare the features of personal response in young patients with minor heart anomalies according to gender and severity of abnormalities. Materials and Methods: Physiological characteristics of 124 male and female (mean age — 22,16±2,42 years) have been examined by means of Toronto Alexithymic scale, reduced multifactorial questionnaire for the study of personality and psychogeometric test. Results: It has been found that both women and men with moderate degree of minor heart anomalies manifest polar intrapsychic tendencies, higher levels of alexithymia than in those with a lesser degree of dysplasia of the connective tissue of the heart. Conclusion: Patients with moderate degree of minor heart anomalies have experienced the conflicting intrapsychic tendencies and higher levels of alexithymia than patients with minor heart anomalies of a minimal degree, regardless of the gender. Male patients with varying degrees of severity are more likely to suffer from alexithymia than females
Kurako М.М., Kirichuk V.F., Kodochigova A.I., Papshitskaya N.Y., Olenko E.S., Sulkovskaya L.S. Psychophysiological features of male and female young patients with minor heart anomalies depending on degree of their intensity // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2012, pp. 209-213
