1. Constructive thinking, rational intelligence and irritable bowel syndrome
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Marta Moreno Ortega, Enrique Rey, Manuel Díaz-Rubio, and Mónica García Alonso
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Adult ,Male ,Personality Tests ,Psychometrics ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Intelligence ,ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION ,Data_CODINGANDINFORMATIONTHEORY ,Logistic regression ,Severity of Illness Index ,Irritable Bowel Syndrome ,Cognition ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,ComputingMethodologies_SYMBOLICANDALGEBRAICMANIPULATION ,medicine ,Personality ,Humans ,Irritable bowel syndrome ,health care economics and organizations ,media_common ,Hardware_MEMORYSTRUCTURES ,digestive, oral, and skin physiology ,Gastroenterology ,ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING ,Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ,food and beverages ,General Medicine ,Original Articles ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,digestive system diseases ,Holmes and Rahe stress scale ,Case-Control Studies ,Anxiety ,Regression Analysis ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Personality Assessment Inventory ,Psychology ,Psychopathology ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
AIM: To evaluate rational and experiential intelligence in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) sufferers. METHODS: We recruited 100 subjects with IBS as per Rome II criteria (50 consulters and 50 non-consulters) and 100 healthy controls, matched by age, sex and educational level. Cases and controls completed a clinical questionnaire (including symptom characteristics and medical consultation) and the following tests: rational-intelligence (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, 3rd edition); experiential-intelligence (Constructive Thinking Inventory); personality (NEO personality inventory); psychopathology (MMPI-2), anxiety (state-trait anxiety inventory) and life events (social readjustment rating scale). Analysis of variance was used to compare the test results of IBS-sufferers and controls, and a logistic regression model was then constructed and adjusted for age, sex and educational level to evaluate any possible association with IBS. RESULTS: No differences were found between IBS cases and controls in terms of IQ (102.0 ± 10.8 vs 102.8 ± 12.6), but IBS sufferers scored significantly lower in global constructive thinking (43.7 ± 9.4 vs 49.6 ± 9.7). In the logistic regression model, global constructive thinking score was independently linked to suffering from IBS [OR 0.92 (0.87-0.97)], without significant OR for total IQ. CONCLUSION: IBS subjects do not show lower rational intelligence than controls, but lower experiential intelligence is nevertheless associated with IBS.
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- 2009