Beutler L E, Ware J C, Karacan I, Thornby J I
Sleep. 1981;4(1):39-47. doi: 10.1093/sleep/4.1.39.
Fifty male subjects were group-matched for age and socioeconomic status. Twenty of the subjects were diagnosed as having sleep apnea and 20 were diagnosed as having narcolepsy on the basis of sleep studies. The remaining 10 subjects served as normal controls. Differences among the groups were evaluated on the bases of two psychological instruments designed to assess personality characteristics and mood states. The findings suggest that narcoleptics and apneics both present discriminatively different psychological profiles than do normals. Moreover, personality characteristics of these two groups are distinguishable from one another. Apneics tend to be individuals with hypochondriacal and hysterical characteristics, whereas narcoleptics are more easily characterized by anxiety and social introversion. Both severity of psychological disturbance (mean Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory elevations) and personality pattern (two-point codes) distinguish the groups. Key Words: Sleep apnea-Narcolepsy-Psychological profiles.
五十名男性受试者按年龄和社会经济地位进行了组间匹配。根据睡眠研究，其中二十名受试者被诊断患有睡眠呼吸暂停，二十名被诊断患有发作性睡病。其余十名受试者作为正常对照组。基于两种旨在评估人格特征和情绪状态的心理测试工具，对各组之间的差异进行了评估。研究结果表明，发作性睡病患者和睡眠呼吸暂停患者与正常人相比，均呈现出明显不同的心理特征。此外，这两组的人格特征也彼此有别。睡眠呼吸暂停患者往往具有疑病和癔症特征，而发作性睡病患者更容易表现出焦虑和社交内向。心理障碍的严重程度（明尼苏达多相人格调查表平均得分升高情况）和人格模式（两点编码）均可区分这两组。关键词：睡眠呼吸暂停 - 发作性睡病 - 心理特征
