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Psychological characteristics of women with androgenetic alopecia: a controlled study
Author(s) -
DONK J.,
PASSCHIER J.,
KNEGTJUNK C.,
WEGENKEIJSER M.H.,
NIEBOER C.,
STOLZ E.,
VERHAGE F.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1991.tb14749.x
Subject(s) - psychosocial , hair loss , medicine , clinical psychology , psychology , psychiatry , dermatology
Summary The psychological characteristics and the hair problems of 58 females with androgenetic alopecia were compared with a group of women with non‐apparent dermatological diseases, and with a group of men with androgenetic alopecia. The women with androgenetic alopecia had higher scores for self‐sufficiency and social inadequacy compared to women with non‐visible dermatological complaints, and they scored higher for inadequacy, rigidity and general psychological maladjustment than the men and had lower scores for injuredness self‐evaluation and self‐esteem. The women with androgenetic alopecia had more psychosocial problems, which they attributed to the hair loss, than the other groups.