Bell Iris R, Baldwin C M, Schwartz G E, Davidson J R T
Program in Integrative Medicine, The University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson 85719, USA.
Homeopathy. 2002 Apr;91(2):63-74. doi: 10.1054/homp.2002.0003.
This study examined associations between scores for 19 different remedies on the constitutional type questionnaire (CTQ) and scores on standardized psychological and medical trait and state scales from health psychology research. Subjects were 104 young adult American college students (mean age 20 years; 67% female). Scales included the chemical intolerance index (CII) for environmental sensitivity, the NEO personality inventory, Marlowe-Crowne social desirability (MCSD) Scale for defensiveness, Harvard parental caring scale (HPCS) for perceived mother and father traits, Profile of Mood State (POMS) scale, Pennebaker symptom checklist (PSC), and a 3-item global health rating scale. The majority of CTQ constitutional type scores correlated significantly with greater NEO neuroticism, lower MCSD defensiveness, and greater psychological distress on the POMS subscales. NEO Extraversion and Openness subscales correlated with specific CTQ scores in directions consistent with clinical remedy pictures. CTQ Carcinosin differed from other remedies, showing no significant correlations with other scales. As hypothesized (a) persons high on CTQ scores for Carcinosin and low in parental caring (HPCS) had the highest symptom score; (b) those high on CTQ scores for Sulphur and low on HPCS had the poorest global health ratings; (c) individuals high on four different CTQ type scores (Carcinosin, Lachesis, Nux vomica, Sulphur) and high on environmental sensitivity (CII) exhibited the highest symptom scores. Taken together, the data offer additional validation of the CTQ and provide a foundation for studying interactions of constitutional type with both psychosocial and physicochemical environmental factors in homeopathic provers and patients.
本研究考察了体质类型问卷（CTQ）上19种不同疗法的得分与健康心理学研究中标准化心理和医学特质及状态量表得分之间的关联。研究对象为104名美国年轻成年大学生（平均年龄20岁；67%为女性）。量表包括环境敏感性的化学不耐受指数（CII）、大五人格量表、用于防御性的马洛-克劳恩社会赞许性（MCSD）量表、用于感知父母特质的哈佛父母关怀量表（HPCS）、情绪状态剖面图（POMS）量表、彭尼贝克症状清单（PSC）以及一个3项整体健康评定量表。CTQ体质类型得分中的大多数与更高的大五人格神经质得分、更低的MCSD防御性得分以及POMS子量表上更高的心理困扰显著相关。大五人格外向性和开放性子量表与特定的CTQ得分在方向上的关联与临床疗法描述一致。CTQ中的癌菌素与其他疗法不同，与其他量表无显著相关性。正如所假设的：（a）癌菌素CTQ得分高且父母关怀（HPCS）得分低的人症状得分最高；（b）硫磺CTQ得分高且HPCS得分低的人整体健康评定最差；（c）四种不同CTQ类型得分（癌菌素、蝰蛇毒、番木鳖、硫磺）高且环境敏感性（CII）高的个体症状得分最高。总体而言，这些数据为CTQ提供了更多验证，并为研究顺势疗法试验者和患者的体质类型与心理社会及物理化学环境因素之间的相互作用奠定了基础。
