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Mehmet Ak, Bikem Haciomeroglu, Yilmaz Turan, Nergis Lapsekili, Ali Doruk, Ali Bozkurt andTemperament and character properties of male psoriasis patients
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Introduction
The skin is closely related to mind and it has
been accepted as one of the most importantbody parts that reflects the psychological state
of the person and in the evaluation of tempera-
ment and character. Skin plays an important
role in expressing emotions like anger, fear,
shame and excitement, responding to emotional
stimulus, in the development of self-image and
self-esteem, and in the socialization process
from infancy to adulthood. The relationship
between the skin and the brain begins in the
embryonic period. Skin and brain are originatedfrom ectoderm and some of the hormones and
neurotransmitters can affect both of them
(Koblenzer, 1983; Mercan and Altunay, 2006).Skin disorders such as alopecia and psoria-
sis are accepted as falling within the category
of psychosomatic disorders (Tucker, 2009).
Psoriasis has been explained as a psychoso-
matic disorder for a long time (Griffiths and
Richards, 2001). It is a chronic and disabling
Temperament andcharacter propertiesof male psoriasis patients
Mehmet Ak, Bikem Haciomeroglu,Ylmaz
Turan, Nergis Lapsekili, Ali Doruk,
Ali Bozkurt and Ahmet Akar
Gulhane School of Medicine, Turkey
AbstractPersonality properties have an effect on the onset and triggering of psoriasis. The current study aimed to
examine the personality of psoriasis patients in relation to the severity of the illness. Psoriasis and healthy
participants completed the Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Maudsley Obsessive
Compulsive Inventory, Temperament and Character Inventory. Severity of psoriasis was evaluated by
the PASI. MANCOVA results revealed significantly higher Novelty Seeking, Harm Avoidance, Reward
Dependence and Self-Transcendence scores for psoriasis group. Severity of PASI was predicted by harm
avoidance and reward dependence. Personality properties should be evaluated while planning therapeuticinterventions for psoriasis patients.
KeywordsCharacter, psoriasis, temperament
Corresponding author:
Mehmet Ak, Department of Dermatology, Gulhane
School of Medicine, Etlik-Ankara 06018, Turkey.
Email: [email protected]
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skin disease, which affects up to two percent of
the population. Little is known about the physi-
cal, psychological and social factors related to
the illness (Rapp et al., 1997). It is equally seen
in men and women and it can begin at any age.
Stress and psychosocial factors play an impor-
tant role both in the onset and exacerbation of
the disorder. Some of the studies do not show a
strong correlation between the severity of the
disorder and stress and psychosocial factors
(Griffiths and Barker, 2007; Mercan and
Altunay, 2006). On the other hand, in a study
that examined the relationship between the
severity of psoriasis, different types of psori-
atic treatment and patients quality of life, it
was found that psychological distress can exac-
erbate the illness and, after the treatment, the
quality of life of the patients was significantly
improved (Coimbra et al., 2011). Although
psoriasis is not a life threatening disorder, it has
significant effects on the patients quality of
life. For example, suicidal ideas are signifi-
cantly higher in psoriasis patients compared to
patients with non-psychosomatic skin disor-
ders (Bozta and Polat, 2010). Some of the psy-
chiatric disorders such as major depression,
generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive com-
pulsive disorder and alcohol dependency are
more common in psoriasis patients (Bozta and
Polat, 2010; Nasreen et al., 2008; Taner et al.,
2007;Van Voorhees and Fried, 2009). The rela-
tionship between psoriasis and affective disor-
ders and their treatments are multi-dimensional.
Although psoriasis is an illness without itch-
ing, depressive psoriasis patients have itching,
and when the severity of depression increases,
the severity of the itching and the risk for sui-
cide also increase. With antidepressant treat-
ments, itching and insomnia complaints
disappear (Mercan and Altunay, 2006; Gupta
and Gupta, 1999; Gupta et al., 1993).
Although a personality structure specific to
psoriasis has not been defined, psoriasis patients
are reported to have more obsessive compulsive,
avoidant, schizoid and passive-aggressive prop-
erties than healthy controls (Kilic et al., 2008;Rubino et al., 1995). A few numbers of studies
that investigated the temperament and character
properties of psoriasis patients have controver-
sial results. Kilic and colleagues (2008) found
higher Harm Avoidance and lower Self-
Directedness scores of psoriasis patients com-
pared to healthy controls. On the other hand,
Guler and colleagues (2007) found that psoria-
sis, vitiligo and neurodermatitis patients were
not different from each other in terms of tem-
perament properties, and for the character prop-
erties they are similar to healthy controls. Doruk
et al. claimed that temperament and character
properties of psoriasis patients were not differ-
ent from healthy controls (Doruk et al., 2009).
Generally most of the studies were based on
Coloningers psychobiological personality the-
ory. This dimensional psychological approach to
the personality model defined that personality
had two fundamental components: temperament
and character. According to this model, person-
ality is a complex system consists of different
psychobiological dimensions of temperament
and character. Temperament refers to automatic
emotions and responses thought to be moder-
ately heritable, therefore largely genetically
based, where as character is largely environ-
mentally derived and responsive to learning and
maturation (Cloninger, 2003). Cloninger and
colleagues identified four temperament dimen-
sions (novelty seeking, harm avoidance, reward
dependence and persistence) and three character
dimensions (self-directedness, cooperativeness
and self-transcendence; Cloninger et al., 1993).
In this study, based on Cloningers psycho-
biological personality model, it was aimed to
compare the temperament and character proper-
ties of psoriasis patients and healthy controls,
and to investigate the relationship between the
temperament and character properties and the
severity of psoriasis.
Method
Participants
Patients diagnosed with psoriasis in a derma-tology clinic were informed about the study
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and those who accepted to participate were
referred to a psychiatry clinic. All participants
were male ranging from 20 to 30 years old.
Diagnostic evaluations were made with the
SCID-I, and all participants completed the
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Beck
Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and Maudsley
Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (MOCI).
Temperament and character properties of the
participants were evaluated by Temperament
and Character Inventory (TCI). The Psoriasis
Area and Severity Index (PASI) was used by
dermatologists in order to evaluate the severity
of psoriasis. Participants who had any dermato-
logical or systemic disorders other than psoria-
sis (ie, diabetes mellitus, hypertension),
DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (ie, depression, gen-
eralized anxiety disorder) and participants who
had a low education level were excluded from
the study. The control group had no physical or
psychiatric disorder and their demographic
properties (gender, age and education level)
were similar to the patient group. The control
group consisted of voluntary individuals who
accompanied the patients in the hospital.
Seventy-three participants diagnosed with
psoriasis were interviewed with a psychiatrist
and 61 patients were included in the study. Four
patients with obsessive compulsive disorder,
four patients with depressive disorder, two
patients with generalized anxiety disorder, one
patient with panic disorder and one patient with
adjustment disorder were excluded from the
study. The co-morbidity ratio of psychiatric dis-
order with psoriasis was 16 percent. The control
group consisted of 55 healthy participants.
Assessment tools
Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI).
Coloningers Temperament and Character Inven-
tory is a self-assessment tool consists of 240
items rated as true or false. Temperament has
four dimensions, defined as Novelty Seeking
(NS), Harm Avoidance (HA), Reward Depend-
ence (RD) and Persistence (P). Character hasthree dimensions as Self-Directedness (SD),
Cooperativeness (C) and Self-Transcendence
(ST). Kose et al. (2004) and Arkar (2005) con-
ducted Turkish reliability and validity studies of
the scale.
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). BDI consists
of 21 self-assessment items exploring the symp-
toms of depression scored from 03. Hisli
(1988) conducted the reliability and validity
study of Turkish version of the scale.
Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). The level of anxi-
ety of participants was assessed by BAI devel-
oped by Beck and colleagues (Beck et al.,
1988). Likert type scale consists of 21 self-
assessment items ranging from 03. Ulusoy
and colleagues conducted the reliability and
validity study of Turkish version of the scale
(Ulusoy et al., 1998).
Maudsley Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (MOCI).
A self-assessment scale developed by Hodgson
and Rachman (1977) evaluates the type and
severity of obsessive compulsive symptoms.
Thirty-seven items are rated as true or false.
Turkish reliability and validity study of the
scale was conducted by Erol and Savasir (1988).
Statistical analysis
Multiple regression analyses were conducted
in order to see whether temperament and char-
acter properties could be predicted from
depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and
PASI scores in the psoriasis group. In order to
examine the differences between the psoriasisand control groups in terms of temperament
and character properties, one-way Multivariate
Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) was
conducted after controlling for BDI, BAI and
MOCI scores.
Results
The psoriasis group and healthy control groups
were compared in terms of age, BDI, BAI andMOCI scores. The mean age of the psoriasis
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group (23.68 4.38l) was not significantly dif-
ferent from the mean age of the control group
(26.11 6.15). In terms of BDI scores, there
was a significant difference between psoriasis
(M =16.04 12.52) and control groups (M =5.75 8.41), (t =4.64, p
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inheritable, manifest in infancy and similar in
different cultures (Kose, 2003; Sadock, 2004).
These properties are important determinants of
the individuals response to stressors and cop-
ing mechanisms. Different findings have been
presented for psoriasis patients in terms of tem-
perament properties. For example, in their
study, Kilic et al. (2008) found high HA andRD scores in psoriasis patients. Guler et al.
(2007) reported low harm avoidance scores yet
high novelty seeking, especially impulsiveness
scores in psoriasis patients. In the current study,
HA, RD and NS scores were found to be higher
than in controls. These results lead us to con-
sider that the previous conflicting results might
actually be due to not controlling for clinical
variables. However, it should be taken intoaccount that this study includes only male
Table 2. Comparison of psoriasis and control groups in terms of temperament and character propertiesafter controlled for Depression, Anxiety and OC Symptoms
TCI Psoriasis GroupN= 61(Mean SD)
Control GroupN= 55(Mean SD)
F
Exploratory excitability (NS1) 6.57 1.69 5.64 1.95 0.43Impulsiveness (NS2) 6.70 2.09 5.57 2.13 0.85
Extravagance (NS3) 3.96 1.61 2.98 1.67 4.17*
Disorderliness (NS4) 5.91 1.91 4.45 2.37 3.66*
Novelty Seeking (NS) 23.13 4.71 18.63 6.58 3.90*
Anticipatory worry (HA1) 5.87 1.93 4.25 2.25 7.18**
Fear of uncertainty (HA2) 4.09 1.89 2.90 1.93 0.35
Shyness with strangers (HA3) 4.47 1.48 3.59 1.61 4.58*
Fatigability and asthenia (HA4) 5.40 2.14 4.00 2.14 3.86*
Harm Avoidance (HA) 19.83 5.37 14.75 6.50 5.93*
Sentimentality (RD1) 6.87 1.82 5.68 2.22 2.98Attachment (RD2) 5.06 1.30 4.34 1.66 0.96
Dependence (RD3) 3.89 1.40 2.86 1.32 6.33**
Reward Dependence (RD) 15.81 2.88 12.89 4.01 6.20**
Persistence (P) 4.49 1.51 3.52 1.88 1.55
Responsibility (SD1) 4.55 1.94 2.77 2.12 1.86
Purposefulness (SD2) 4.91 1.45 4.11 1.51 0.32
Resourcefulness (SD3) 2.17 1.36 1.43 1.24 1.42
Self-Acceptance (SD4) 9.11 2.18 4.94 2.66 0.28
Congruent second nature (SD5) 6.91 2.33 6.32 2.58 0.004
Self-Directedness (SD) 24.64 6.75 19.57 8.66 0.76
Acceptance (C1) 4.92 1.35 4.07 1.37 2.18Empathy (C2) 4.72 1.39 4.11 1.65 0.24
Helpfulness (C3) 4.53 1.28 4.09 1.41 0.04
Compassion vs. revenge (C4) 4.96 1.66 4.59 1.87 0.22
Intergraded conscience (C5) 5.17 1.59 4.61 1.54 0.98
Cooperativeness (C) 24.30 4.53 21.48 6.31 0.39
Self-Forgetfulness (ST1) 7.21 2.46 4.59 2.80 5.81*
Transpersonal identification (ST2) 5.43 2.31 3.77 2.32 4.87*
Spiritual acceptance (ST3) 8.06 2.64 5.90 2.77 5.91*Self-Transcendence (ST) 20.70 5.84 14.27 6.95 8.38**
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participants. It can be said that male psoriasis
patients have temperament properties such as
impulsiveness, fatigability, worrying and
dependency. These properties, which are herit-
able, might be effective in the onset, course and
treatment stages of the disorder. Many studies
showed that higher HA scores leads to prone-
ness to depression. Elovainio et al. (2004)
reported that shyness with strangers and fatiga-
bility was important in the development of
depressive symptoms. High levels of co-
morbidity of psoriasis and depression might be
linked to temperament properties (Gupta and
Gupta, 1998; Taner et al., 2007; Van Voorhees
and Fried, 2009).
Character is largely environmentally derived
and responsive to learning and maturation.
Character can be defined as psychologically
self-directedness including rule making, execu-
tive and judgmental functioning. In this study
Self-Transcendence scores of psoriasis patients
were found to be higher than in controls. High
self-transcendent individuals are generally
more fair, considerate, religious and decent.
This property is adaptively advantageous for
people who face death or illnesses that are inev-
itable with age (Sadock and Sadock, 2004).
Contrary to the temperament properties that
might be related to co-morbid psychiatric
symptoms, the balance might be kept with this
protective and adaptive character property.
Additionally, in this study, it was aimed to
investigate PASI as a predictor of temperament
and character properties. In psoriasis patients,
the severity of PASI scores was positively
related to HA and RD scores. However no rela-
tionship was obtained with NS. Similarly, there
was no significant relationship between any of
the character properties and PASI. In the light
of these findings it can be said that dependent,
sentimental and avoidant persons have more
severe psoriasis symptoms.
In conclusion, male patients with psoriasis
differed from healthy controls in terms of tem-
perament dimensions including high NS, HA
and RD. Among these properties high HA and
RD can be predicted by the severity of PASI.
Psychosocial support for psoriasis patients is
important for the prognosis of the disorder and
the previously mentioned temperament and
character properties should be taken into con-
sideration while planning therapeutic interven-
tions for psoriasis patients.
In order to eliminate the possible effect of
age and gender on temperament and character
properties, only male patients ranging from 20
to 30 years old were included in the study.
However, this is also an important limitation.
Since it is a cross-sectional design we cannot
talk about causal relationships between psoria-
sis and temperament and character dimensions.
Table 3.Temperament and character properties ofpsoriasis patients
Temperamentand characterdimension
Description ofhighness
Possiblebiological factor
High NS Quicktempered,enthusiastic,easily bored,impulsive,extravagantand disorderly
Dopamine
High HA Anxious,pessimistic,fatigue and
shy, passiveavoidancefrom problemsand threats,anticipatoryworry
Serotonin
High RD Sentimental,sociallysensitive,dependent,relies on socialapproval
Norepinephrine
High ST Fair,considerate,religious,decent
Undefined
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Future studies should examine the effects of
the relationship between psoriasis and temper-
ament and character properties on the treat-
ment response in longitudinal designs, and
should include larger number of participants in
terms of age and gender.
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