PMID- 36052986
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20230831
IS  - 1465-3966 (Electronic)
IS  - 1354-8506 (Linking)
VI  - 28
IP  - 7
DP  - 2023 Jul-Dec
TI  - Differences in life attitudes between general population and hospitalized 
      psychosomatic patients: a comparative cross-sectional study.
PG  - 1729-1740
LID - 10.1080/13548506.2022.2120624 [doi]
AB  - To compare the extent to which value-based life attitudes measured by means of 
      the Life Attitude Profile (LAP-R) could differ between the general population and 
      people suffering from mental disorders hospitalized in a psychosomatic ward. 
      Cross-sectional comparative study between a sample of general population 
      (n = 409) and a sample of unselected patients (n = 147) at admission in a 
      psychosomatic ward. Comparisons were carried out by means of Cronbach's alpha, 
      correlation matrix, t-tests, robust multivariate linear regression models (MLRM), 
      and using propensity scores. The internal consistency of LAP-R is good 
      (alpha = 0.90). Divergent validity with BFI dimensions is widely given. In MLRM 
      general population scored higher for the indexes 'personal meaning' and 
      'existential transcendence', whereas psychosomatic patients for the dimensions 
      'responsibleness', 'death acceptance', 'goal seeking' and especially 'existential 
      vacuum'. Sex, partnership and schooling display few associations. Neuroticism is 
      negatively and agreeableness positively associated with life attitudes considered 
      as protective. Norm values and differences were stratified by age ranges. This 
      study demonstrates that basic human attitudes like personal transcendence, 
      personal meaning, having a biographically supported mission in life, and belief 
      in a reason for existence are so fundamental for individuals that they are to 
      some degree given independently of having a mental disorder or not. Neuroticism 
      is a risk trait and agreeableness a protective trait facing life attitudes. The 
      findings of this study indicate that people suffering from mental disorders 
      treated in a specialized psychosomatic unit in a general hospital have important 
      value-based resources and simultaneously higher levels of existential vacuum that 
      have to be considered in treatment planning but should also be embedded in a 
      therapeutic alliance. The existential vacuum deserves special consideration in 
      the treatment of patients, especially facing risk of suicide.
FAU - Valdes-Stauber, Juan
AU  - Valdes-Stauber J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5655-4403
AD  - Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I, University of Ulm Germany, Zentrum 
      Fur Psychiatrie Sudwurttemberg, Ravensburg, Germany.
FAU - Bottinger, Jakob
AU  - Bottinger J
AD  - Doctoral candidate, University of Ulm, Germany.
FAU - Kramer, Sarah
AU  - Kramer S
AD  - Doctoral candidate, University of Munich, Germany.
FAU - Kammerle, Helen
AU  - Kammerle H
AD  - Psychologist, Vinzenz von Paul Hospital, Rottweil, Germany.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220902
PL  - England
TA  - Psychol Health Med
JT  - Psychology, health & medicine
JID - 9604099
SB  - IM
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - LAP-R
OT  - Life attitudes
OT  - existential vacuum
OT  - personality
OT  - psychosomatics
EDAT- 2022/09/03 06:00
MHDA- 2022/09/03 06:01
CRDT- 2022/09/02 07:42
PHST- 2022/09/03 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/09/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/09/02 07:42 [entrez]
AID - 10.1080/13548506.2022.2120624 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychol Health Med. 2023 Jul-Dec;28(7):1729-1740. doi: 
      10.1080/13548506.2022.2120624. Epub 2022 Sep 2.