MPIによるメニエール病患者の性格 (2) 頸性聴平衡障害, 起立性調節障害との比較検討

Both the Cornell Medical Index test and the Maudsley Personality Inventory test were administered to 150 vertiginous patients who were 54 with Meniere's disease and 96 with the cervicogenic acoustico-equilibrium disorder or the orthostatic disregulation as the control, due to verify what personality elements are specific in Meniere's disease and due to determine whether each disorder of control might be categorized as independent from Meniere's disease or must involve into it as the background factors.In the Maudsley Personality Inventory, the patients with Meniere's disease had a fundamental character of moderate extraversion and low neuroticism that is manifested as E0N- category, while the patients of the control had commonly a character of moderate extraversion and moderate neuroticism categorized as E0N0.Further difference was found between them in the Cornell Medical Index. The former character was divided into some subtypes according to various psychosomatic conditions without neurosis while the latter was superimposed with various grade of neurosis which had gradually grown up in proportion to the period affected by vertigo.These observations confirmed in our viewpoint that the Meniere's disease and the two diseases of the control should be in the different category each other.