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Psychosomatic Medicine 35:23-40 (1973)
© 1973 American Psychosomatic Society

Personality Styles in the Postoperative Course

INA BOYD MD1, MARIAN YEAGER PHD1, and MAE MCMILLAN MD1

1 Psychiatry and Neurology Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Houston, Texas

Address for reprint requests: Ina Boyd, MD, Psychiatry and Neurology Service, VA Hospital, 2002 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77031.

This study presents a profile of 27 mentally healthy males undergoing reconstructive vascular surgery for occlusive disease. There was a natural polarization of the subjects into two groups postoperatively: those with good adjustment and those with poor adjustment. All subjects were examined extensively and intensively by in-depth psychiatric interviews and psychologic testing both preoperatively and postoperatively and were followed for 1 year. Factors differentiating the two groups were studied; the most significant difference lay in the subjects' stress-coping styles. Other interesting differences were noted.

Submitted on November 22, 1971
Revised on March 7, 1972






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