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Personality Profiles in Cluster Headache and Migraine
Author(s) -
Cuypers J.,
Altenkirch H.,
Bunge S.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1981.hed2101021.x
Subject(s) - migraine , neuroticism , personality , cluster headache , cluster (spacecraft) , clinical psychology , psychology , scale (ratio) , psychiatry , personality assessment inventory , cartography , social psychology , computer science , programming language , geography
SYNOPSIS 40 cluster headache patients and 49 migraine patients described their personality using the Freiburg Personality Inventory (FPI). Cluster headache patients had a slightly elevated score in scale 1 (nervousness) and a slightly diminished score on scale M (masculinity). On scale 1 migraine patients displayed a score at the upper borderline of the average range. Both groups evidenced normal values in all the other scales. Our results do not favour the view that neurotic mechanisms play a decisive role in these patients.