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Authors
Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, P.S.G. College of Arts and Science (Autonomous), Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, IN
Source
Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 2, No 5 (2011), Pagination: 985-988
Abstract
Headaches are very common universal experience and often are not associated with significant organic disease. Headache can be debihtating and are probably the most commonly reported painful bodily signal..Headache, with a 1-year period prevalence of 90% and a life time prevalence of 99. At present study have been conducted on to Identify the difference between patients of Chronic Tension Type Headache and Episodic Tension Type Headache on Neuroticism, Extraversion, Psychoticism and Depression. For the purpose of the investigation, a purposive sample of Tension Type Headache patients was identified from the population. The 80 Tension Type Headache patientswere taken as sample forpresentstudy.EysenckPersonalifyQuestionnaireandBeckDepressionlnventoiy were admmisteredbythemvestigatortomeasurethehypothesizedaspects.ThestudyrevealedthatChromc Tension Type Headacheand Episodic Tension Type Headache patients do not differ on Psychoticism, Extraversion but differ on Neuroticism and depression levels.
Keywords
Personalty Dimensions, Depression, Headache Patients.
