[Relationship between psychogenic symptomatology and intelligence]. 1976

K Meszner, and E Hagedorn

Corresponding to variables "leading symptoms in the psychic area" and "psychosomatic diseases in a restricted sense" 493 patients have been divided in four groups. Taking the hypothesis that patients with a different symptomatic show different results in the HAWIE (Hamburg-Wechsler-Intelligence-Test for Adults) four groups have been compared corresponding to their HAWIE-scores. It turns out that patients with a psychic leading symptomatic without important somatic disease and patients with psychosomatic illness in a restricted sense without psychic symptoms showed better results compared with other patients in the verbal tests. For this correlations of the higher scores in the verbal part of the intelligence-test with the phenomena that the investigator more often found the diagnosis of a psychic leading symptom or a psychosomatic disease in a restricted sense the following interpretations are considered: 1. The innerpsychic effort connected with different psychogenic disorders is reflected in the cognitive efficiency. 2. The diagnosis of limited psychomatic illness is also a result of the verbal interaction of doctor(s) and patient.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007360 Intelligence The ability to learn and to deal with new situations and to deal effectively with tasks involving abstractions.
D011599 Psychopathology The study of significant causes and processes in the development of mental illness.
D011602 Psychophysiologic Disorders A group of disorders characterized by physical symptoms that are affected by emotional factors and involve a single organ system, usually under AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM control. (American Psychiatric Glossary, 1988) Psychosomatic Disorders,Psychophysiological Disorders,Psychophysiologic Disorder,Psychophysiological Disorder,Psychosomatic Disorder
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014888 Wechsler Scales Tests designed to measure intellectual functioning in children and adults. National Adult Reading Test,WAIS-R,WISC-IV,WISC-V,WMS-IV-NL,WPPSI,Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised,Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children,Wechsler Intelligence Scales,Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence,Wechsler Test of Adult Reading,Intelligence Scales, Wechsler

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