Ditunno P L, McCauley C, Marquette C
Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 1985 Mar;66(3):152-5.
Professionals in the rehabilitation field differ in their conceptualization of the role of premorbid personality factors as related to risk behavior and incidence of traumatic injury. Some hold that specific premorbid personality traits can be identified for the spinal cord injured population; others argue that no one personality trait or specific combination of traits is descriptive of this heterogeneous population. This study explores the relationship between the sensation-seeking behavioral patterns and incidence of traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). The Sensation-Seeking Scale (SSS) was administered to 56 patients with spinal cord injury (50 males and 6 females) between the ages of 16 and 50. A description of the incident causing injury was obtained for all 56 patients and subsequently rated by non-medical judges on a dimension of prudence-imprudence. No significant correlations were found between sensation-seeking scores and rated prudence of onset of injury, and sensation-seeking scores were no higher for SCI patients than for a comparable normal population. These findings indicate that spinal cord injury is not related to sensation-seeking, and, more generally, support the view that no premorbid personality trait distinguishes the SCI population from the normal.
康复领域的专业人士对于病前人格因素与风险行为及创伤性损伤发生率之间关系的概念化理解存在差异。一些人认为，可以为脊髓损伤人群确定特定的病前人格特质；另一些人则认为，没有一种人格特质或特质的特定组合能够描述这个异质性群体。本研究探讨了寻求刺激行为模式与创伤性脊髓损伤（SCI）发生率之间的关系。对56名年龄在16至50岁之间的脊髓损伤患者（50名男性和6名女性）进行了寻求刺激量表（SSS）测试。获取了所有56名患者导致受伤事件的描述，随后由非医学评判人员根据谨慎-不谨慎维度进行评分。在寻求刺激得分与受伤起始的评分谨慎程度之间未发现显著相关性，并且脊髓损伤患者的寻求刺激得分并不高于可比的正常人群。这些发现表明，脊髓损伤与寻求刺激无关，更普遍地说，支持了这样一种观点，即没有病前人格特质能将脊髓损伤人群与正常人群区分开来。
