[Contribution to the objective evaluation of the personality features of the colitis patient (author's transl)].

Before becoming in-patients in the psychosomatic department 26 patients (male and female) with ulcerative colitis were subjected to a series of personality tests (MMPI, FPI, GT, EPI) and compared with a normal control group. According to these tests and in psychopathological aspects the colitis patients deviated from the normal control group. The colitis patients showed more anxiousness and neuroticism and a tendency to introversion. The psychological results established by the tests and the psychopathological findings coincided especially in respect to the depressiveness. In connection with the inhibited depressiveness the question arises, whether the aggressive modalities, which can be substantiated by internal aspects but not optimally by the tests, can be objectively evaluated.