Illness perceptions and personality traits of patients with mental disorders: the impact of ethnicity.

摘要: Objective To identify differences and similarities between immigrants of Turkish origin native German patients in therapeutically relevant dimensions such as subjective illness perceptions personality traits. Method Turkish mentally disordered in-patients were interviewed three psychiatric clinics Hessen, Germany. The Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-Revised) the Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) used. Differences scales by k-means cluster analyses estimated. Results Of 362 total patients, 227 (123 104 Germans) included. Neither demographic nor clinical detected. Socioeconomic gradients on IPQ-R identified. For each ethnicity, analysis identified four different patient types based NEO-FFI scales. ethnicity appeared to be very similar their structure, but they differed solely magnitude means included subscales according ethnicity. Conclusion When traits are considered together, basic emerge independent ethnicity. Thus, ethnical impact diminishes a convergence was