Boeger A, Seiffge-Krenke I, Roth M
Institut für Psychologie der Universität Bonn, Abteilung Entwicklungs.
Z Kinder Jugendpsychiatr Psychother. 1996 Dec;24(4):231-9.
Psychopathology, self-concept and developmental delays in healthy and chronically ill adolescents: Results of a 4-1/2-year follow-up study. This contribution presents results obtained in a 4-1/2-year longitudinal study on 91 adolescents with diabetes and 107 healthy adolescents. We addressed the question of whether chronically ill adolescents show more psychopathological behaviors than healthy adolescents, and if so, whether there are changes within a time span of 4-1/2-years. In addition, we investigated whether adolescents with diabetes differ from healthy adolescents in their feelings of self-esteem and in their developmental status. The self-concept of healthy and diabetic adolescents proved to be very similar, and stable over time as well. As regards developmental status, the developmental delays seen in the diabetic subjects at the beginning of the study had disappeared by the end of the study. Throughout the study the diabetic adolescents appeared to be more "normal", showing significantly fewer symptoms of psychopathology than the healthy control group. Furthermore, the consistently higher values in social desirability among the diabetic subjects show that the strong denial in these subjects was stable over the 4-1/2-year period.
健康及慢性病青少年的精神病理学、自我概念与发育迟缓：一项4.5年随访研究的结果。本论文呈现了一项针对91名糖尿病青少年和107名健康青少年的4.5年纵向研究所得出的结果。我们探讨了慢性病青少年是否比健康青少年表现出更多的精神病理行为，若如此，在4.5年的时间跨度内是否存在变化。此外，我们研究了糖尿病青少年在自尊感受和发育状况方面是否与健康青少年存在差异。结果表明，健康青少年和患糖尿病青少年的自我概念非常相似，且随时间推移保持稳定。在发育状况方面，研究开始时糖尿病受试者中出现的发育迟缓在研究结束时已消失。在整个研究过程中，糖尿病青少年似乎更“正常”，表现出的精神病理症状明显少于健康对照组。此外，糖尿病受试者在社会期望方面持续较高的数值表明，这些受试者的强烈否认在4.5年期间保持稳定。
