Anger tendency may be associated with duration of illness in panic disorder

BioPsychoSocial Medicine

Nagisa Sugaya⁶  Eiji Yoshida⁷  Shin Yasuda⁵  Mamoru Tochigi⁹  Kunio Takei²  Takeshi Otowa⁹  Tadashi Umekage¹⁰  Yoshiaki Konishi⁸  Yuji Sakano¹  Shinobu Nomura⁴  Yuji Okazaki³  Hisanobu Kaiya⁷  Hisashi Tanii⁸  Tsukasa Sasaki² 

[1] School of Psychological Science, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, 2-5 Ainosato, Kita-ku,, Sapporo 002-8072, Hokkaido, Japan

[2] Office for Mental Health Support, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku 113-8654, Tokyo, Japan

[3] Department of Psychiatry, Koseikai Michinoo Hospital, 1-1 Nijigaoka-machi, Nagasaki City 852-8055, Nagasaki, Japan

[4] Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, 2-579-15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa 359-1192, Saitama, Japan

[5] Neural Plasticity Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, 2-1-6 Kamikitazawa, Setagaya-ku 156-8506, Tokyo, Japan

[6] Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, 3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama 236-0004, Kanagawa, Japan

[7] Outpatient Clinic for Anxiety Disorders, Akasaka Clinic, 3-9-18 Akasaka, Minato-ku 107-0052, Tokyo, Japan

[8] Department of Psychiatry, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-174 Edobashi, Tsu 514-8507, Mie, Japan

[9] Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo 113-8655, Tokyo, Japan

[10] Health Service Center, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku 113-8654, Tokyo, Japan

关键词: Personality;    Anger;    Illness duration;    Panic disorder;   

Others  :  1138210
DOI  :  10.1186/s13030-015-0035-3

 received in 2014-10-22, accepted in 2015-02-17,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Several studies have reported an increased tendency towards anger in patients with panic disorder (PD). If this propensity for anger arises from the pathological process of PD, it may be associated with the duration of the illness. The present study therefore examined the relationship between duration of PD and the personality tendency to experience anger in PD patients.

Methods

Participants were 413 patients (132 men and 281 women; age = 38.7 years) with PD. Diagnoses were confirmed using the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview. Illness duration ranged from less than a year to 51 years. After participants completed the Revised NEO Personality Inventory, we examined the association between illness duration and the Angry Hostility and Impulsiveness subscale scores. In the analysis, participants were divided into two groups by duration of illness (long group, n = 186 and short group, n = 200) using the median value (9 years) as a cut-off because of the skewed distribution of the duration. Patients with an illness duration of 9 years (n = 27) were excluded from the comparison.

Results

The duration of illness was significantly correlated with the Angry Hostility score (p = 0.002) after controlling for age. Scores were significantly higher in the long group than in the short group (p = 0.04). No significant association was observed between Impulsiveness scores and duration of illness.

Conclusion

The present study suggests that longer PD duration is related to a stronger tendency to experience anger.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Sugaya et al.; licensee BioMed Central.

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