Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 3 , Pages 206-212, May 2004

Parental rearing style, premorbid personality, mental health, and quality of life in chronic regional pain: A causal analysis

  • For-Wey Lung

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Military Kaohsiung General Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to For-Wey Lung, M.D. Sc.D., Address: Military Kaohsiung General Hospital, No. 2, Chung Cheng 1st Rd, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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  • Yi-Lin Huang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Military Kaohsiung General Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Bih-Ching Shu

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Allied Health Sciences and School of Nursing, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan City, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Fei-Yin Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Military Kaohsiung General Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Abstract 

The aim of the current study was to establish the causal model among parental bonding, personality characteristics, mental health, quality of life, and chronic regional pain (CRP). Thirty CRP patients and 56 mental illness patients were compared using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ), Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), World Health Organization Quality of Life-Brief-Tawain Version (WHOQOL-BREF-TW), and Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI). There were significant differences in mental health, personality characteristics, and quality of life between the CRP and mental illness groups. Structural equation modeling showed that parental bonding could directly affect personality characteristics, and, hence, directly impact disease and quality of life. CRP is different from mental illness in many dimensions. In this study, CRP appeared to be caused by actual physical dysfunction rather than mental dysfunction.

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PII: S0010-440X(04)00024-0

doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2004.02.009

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 3 , Pages 206-212, May 2004

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