Somatic Expression of Psychological Problems  Somatization : Examination with Structural Equation Model

Tuğba Seda ÇOLAK

doi:https://doi.org/10.17220/ijpes.2014.01.003

Article Details

Somatic Expression of Psychological Problems Somatization : Examination with Structural Equation Model

Authors:

Tuğba Seda ÇOLAK

Publisher:

Mustafa ÖZGENEL

Journal:

International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies 2014 Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.8-14

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

8/2014

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000470096

Frequency:

Monthly

pISSN:

2148-9378

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17220/ijpes.2014.01.003

Abstract:

 

The main purpose of the research is to define which psychological symptoms  somatization, depression, obsessive-compulsive, hostility, interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation and psychoticism  cause somatic reactions at most. Total effect of thesepsychologicalsymptoms on somatic symptoms had beeninvestigated. Study was carried out with structural equation model to research the relation between the psychological symptoms and somatization. The main material of the research is formed by the data obtained from 492 people. SCL-90-R scale was used in order to obtain the data. As a result of the structural equation analysis, it has been found that  1  Psychoticism, phobic anxiety, and paranoid ideation do not predict somatic symptoms.  2  There is a negative relation between interpersonal sensitivity level and somatic reactions.  3  Anxietysymptoms had been found as causative to occurthe highest level of somatic reactions.

Article Details

Somatic Expression of Psychological Problems Somatization : Examination with Structural Equation Model

Authors: Tuğba Seda ÇOLAK

Publisher: Mustafa ÖZGENEL

Journal: International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies 2014 Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.8-14

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 8/2014

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000470096

Frequency: Monthly

pISSN: 2148-9378

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17220/ijpes.2014.01.003

Issues

Authors:

Tuğba Seda ÇOLAK

Publisher:

Mustafa ÖZGENEL

Journal:

International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies 2014 Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.8-14

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

8/2014

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000470096

Frequency:

Monthly

pISSN:

2148-9378

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17220/ijpes.2014.01.003