Citation

Hinkeldey NS, Corrigan JD. Brain Inj. 1990; 4(2): 115-133.

Affiliation

Ohio State University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2331543

Abstract

Psychological functioning in 55 severely head-injured individuals was investigated in order to extend findings on the long-term nature of psychological sequelae after closed head injury. Results showed that head-injured subjects reported numerous psychological deficits many years post-injury, were psychologically distressed by their own report (Brief Symptom Inventory) and that of care-giving relatives (Katz Adjustment Scale--Relatives Version), and also exhibited a different pattern of coping from that of a normative group. A three-factor model of residual psychological complaints that contained a 'General Complaints' factor, a 'Somatization' factor and a 'Severity' factor was identified; this showed some similarity to a model proposed by van Zomeren and van den Burg (1985). Results indicate support for the 'coping hypothesis' of post-injury psychological deficits, although effects consistent with a 'gradations of severity' hypothesis were also present.

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