Leading typological characteristics of temperament and psychodynamic personality traits in men with psoriasis without and taking into account the somatotype
Authors: Obadeh Bassam Abdel-Rahman Al-Qaraleh 
Published: November 2021

Annotation. One of the most important problems of modern dermatology is the individualization of programs for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of skin diseases. The success of its solution largely depends on how fully, systematically will be described and somatic and mental components of the patient’s personality, taking into account the full range of biological and mental factors that affect his health. The aim of the study was to establish the features of the leading typological characteristics of temperament and psychodynamic personality traits between healthy and psoriatic men without taking into account somatotype and representatives of mesomorphic and endo-mesomorphic somatotypes. Men aged 22 to 35 years, patients with psoriasis (n=100, including 32 with mild and 68 with severe) conducted an anthropometric examination according to V. V. Bunak Somatotype was calculated according to the mathematical scheme of J. Carter and B. Heath. The PASI (Psoriasis Area and Severity Index) was used to clinically assess the severity and area of psoriatic lesions. The control group consisted of anthropometric data of 82 practically healthy men of the same age group from the data bank of the research center of National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya. Evaluation of the leading typological characteristics of temperament was determined by G. Eysenck, psychodynamic personality traits – by C. D. Spielberger in the modification of Y. L. Khanin Statistical processing was performed in the license package “Statistica 5.5” using non-parametric evaluation methods. When comparing the studied indicators between groups with different disease course, significantly higher and tendencies to higher values of the percentage were found: persons with potential introversion among patients in general (19.12 %) and endo-mesomorphs (22.22 %) with severe course compared to healthy subjects without taking into account the somatotype (8.54 %) and the control group of a similar somatotype (0 %); persons with a low level of neuroticism among patients in general (50.00 %), mesomorphs (46.43 %) and endo-mesomorphs (75.00 %) with mild psoriasis compared with patients without somatotype, mesomorphs and endo-mesomorphs with severe dermatosis (19.12 %., 18.18 % and 11.11 %); persons with an average level of neuroticism among patients in general (22.06 %) and mesomorphs (20.00 %) with severe psoriasis compared with patients without somatotype and mesomorphs with mild dermatosis (3.13 %, 3.57 %); persons who answered insincerely, among patients with mild psoriasis (87.50 %) compared with patients with severe psoriasis (66.18 %); persons with a low level of situational anxiety among patients in general (12.50 %) and mesomorphs (14.29 %) with a mild course of psoriasis compared with patients without somatotype and mesomorphs with a severe course of dermatosis (2.94 % and 3.04 %); persons with a low level of situational anxiety among patients in general (21.88 %) and mesomorphs (17.86 %) with a mild course of psoriasis compared with patients without somatotype and mesomorphs with a severe course of dermatosis (8.82 % and 5.45 %). When comparing the studied indicators between groups with different body type, significantly higher and tendencies to higher values of the percentage of people with an average level of situational anxiety among endo-mesomorphs with mild and severe psoriasis (100 % in both cases) compared with mesomorphs. the corresponding severity of the disease (63.64 % and 46.43 %); persons with a high level of situational anxiety among mesomorphs with severe psoriasis (30.91 %), compared with endo-mesomorphs with a corresponding severity of the disease (0 %); persons with a low level of personal anxiety among endo-mesomorphs suffering from severe psoriasis (22.22 %), compared with mesomorphs suffering from dermatosis of similar severity (5.45 %); persons with a low level of personal anxiety among healthy endo-mesomorphs (46.15 %) compared with healthy mesomorphs (12.82 %); persons with an average level of personal anxiety among healthy mesomorphs (71.79 %) compared with healthy endo-mesomorphs (30.47 %). Thus, our study, conducted using a constitutional approach, allowed us to describe systemic portraits of patients with psoriasis, including the strengths and weaknesses of their morphological and mental organization, necessary to justify differentiated approaches to planning health and prevention measures.