[The role of psychological variables in the development of somatic diseases--proposal of the integrational model].

The author discusses three groups of the distinguishable results of investigations which confirm the relationship between psychological factors and the development of the somatic diseases such as: changing situations, personality and temperamental factors, and behaviour pattern A. The author quotes data indicating that perceptional and emotional patterns together with associated patterns of the physiological responses may play an important role among personality and temperamental variables. Integrational model includes, besides psychological variables, other (biological) risk factors. Hypotheses concerning the mechanism mediating between these variables and the development of the disease are also discussed.