Orthopedics, University Hospitals Leuven & Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Pellenberg, Belgium.
Musculoskeletal Research Unit, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2014 Feb;23(2):221-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2013.07.049. Epub 2013 Oct 3.
In the past, several studies have suggested the existence of a "periarthritic personality" in patients with frozen shoulder. We conducted a study to determine differences in personality traits in patients with primary and secondary frozen shoulders.
We prospectively evaluated 118 patients (84 women and 34 men; mean age, 53.8 years; SD 7.56) with a frozen shoulder. Of these patients, 48 had an idiopathic frozen shoulder and 70 had a secondary frozen shoulder. Personality traits were determined by the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) scale. This questionnaire measures the 5 major personality traits and is based on the norms determined in a neutral test situation for 2415 controls.
Compared with healthy controls, no differences in personality traits were found in patients with primary and secondary frozen shoulder, except for Conscientiousness and Extraversion, for which patients with secondary frozen shoulder scored significantly higher than healthy controls. Patients with primary frozen shoulder scored significantly higher on Openness to Experience than did patients with secondary frozen shoulder; on the other 4 Big Five personality traits, no significant differences were found between patients with primary and secondary frozen shoulder. More specifically, patients with idiopathic frozen shoulder did not score higher on the trait Neuroticism as would be expected from previous publications.
Our study results do not indicate that patients with an idiopathic frozen shoulder have a specific personality compared with healthy controls. Only a few differences were found in personality traits when the entire frozen shoulder group was compared with healthy controls and between patients with primary and secondary frozen shoulders. The results of this study suggest that these differences are not sufficient to speak about a specific "frozen shoulder personality."
过去，有几项研究表明患有冻结肩的患者存在“关节周围人格”。我们进行了一项研究，以确定原发性和继发性冻结肩患者的人格特质差异。
我们前瞻性评估了 118 名冻结肩患者（48 名女性和 34 名男性；平均年龄 53.8 岁；标准差 7.56）。其中 48 名患者为特发性冻结肩，70 名患者为继发性冻结肩。人格特质通过 NEO 五因素量表（NEO-FFI）进行评估。该问卷测量 5 种主要人格特质，基于对 2415 名对照者进行中性测试的标准。
与健康对照组相比，原发性和继发性冻结肩患者的人格特质无差异，除了尽责性和外向性，继发性冻结肩患者的得分明显高于健康对照组。原发性冻结肩患者的开放性得分明显高于继发性冻结肩患者；在其他 4 种大五人格特质方面，原发性和继发性冻结肩患者之间无显著差异。具体来说，与之前的出版物所预期的相反，特发性冻结肩患者在神经质特质上的得分并不高。
我们的研究结果表明，与健康对照组相比，特发性冻结肩患者没有特定的人格特征。当将整个冻结肩组与健康对照组进行比较以及在原发性和继发性冻结肩患者之间进行比较时，仅发现人格特质存在少数差异。这项研究的结果表明，这些差异不足以说明存在特定的“冻结肩人格”。
