Open AccessPsychological characteristics of the personality of children ill with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatism
Author(s) -
Rasa Bieliauskaitė
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
psichologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2345-0061
pISSN - 1392-0359
DOI - 10.15388/psichol.1984.5.9130
Subject(s) - rheumatism , rorschach test , juvenile rheumatoid arthritis , hostility , medicine , rheumatoid arthritis , personality , anxiety , projective test , arthritis , clinical psychology , psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , psychoanalysis
This work was aimed at depicting some psychological features characteristic of children ill with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatism. Three projective tests were used: “House-Tree-Person” test, “Kinetic Family Drawing” and Rorschach test. 60 children ill with rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatism were tested. The control group consisted of 30 practically healthy children. Collected data has shown that unsociability, poverty of emotions, very high level of anxiety are characteristic of children ill with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatic children show high level of insecurity, hostility and antagonism in the family. Difficulties in communication, subjectively worse situation in family were characteristic of both groups of sick children.