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Homeopathic constitutional type questionnaire correlates of conventional psychological and physical health scales: individual difference characteristics of young adults.

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Bell, IR; Baldwin, CM; Schwartz, GE; Davidson, JRT
Published in: Homeopathy
April 2002

This study examined associations between scores for 19 different remedies on the constitutional type questionnaire (CTQ) and scores on standardized psychological and medical trait and state scales from health psychology research. Subjects were 104 young adult American college students (mean age 20 years; 67% female). Scales included the chemical intolerance index (CII) for environmental sensitivity, the NEO personality inventory, Marlowe-Crowne social desirability (MCSD) Scale for defensiveness, Harvard parental caring scale (HPCS) for perceived mother and father traits, Profile of Mood State (POMS) scale, Pennebaker symptom checklist (PSC), and a 3-item global health rating scale. The majority of CTQ constitutional type scores correlated significantly with greater NEO neuroticism, lower MCSD defensiveness, and greater psychological distress on the POMS subscales. NEO Extraversion and Openness subscales correlated with specific CTQ scores in directions consistent with clinical remedy pictures. CTQ Carcinosin differed from other remedies, showing no significant correlations with other scales. As hypothesized (a) persons high on CTQ scores for Carcinosin and low in parental caring (HPCS) had the highest symptom score; (b) those high on CTQ scores for Sulphur and low on HPCS had the poorest global health ratings; (c) individuals high on four different CTQ type scores (Carcinosin, Lachesis, Nux vomica, Sulphur) and high on environmental sensitivity (CII) exhibited the highest symptom scores. Taken together, the data offer additional validation of the CTQ and provide a foundation for studying interactions of constitutional type with both psychosocial and physicochemical environmental factors in homeopathic provers and patients.

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Homeopathy

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ISSN

1475-4916

Publication Date

April 2002

Volume

91

Issue

2

Start / End Page

63 / 74

Location

Germany

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Students
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Personality Inventory
  • Materia Medica
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Homeopathy
  • Health Status
 

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Bell, I. R., Baldwin, C. M., Schwartz, G. E., & Davidson, J. R. T. (2002). Homeopathic constitutional type questionnaire correlates of conventional psychological and physical health scales: individual difference characteristics of young adults. Homeopathy, 91(2), 63–74. https://doi.org/10.1054/homp.2002.0003
Bell, Iris R., C. M. Baldwin, G. E. Schwartz, and J. R. T. Davidson. “Homeopathic constitutional type questionnaire correlates of conventional psychological and physical health scales: individual difference characteristics of young adults.Homeopathy 91, no. 2 (April 2002): 63–74. https://doi.org/10.1054/homp.2002.0003.
Bell, Iris R., et al. “Homeopathic constitutional type questionnaire correlates of conventional psychological and physical health scales: individual difference characteristics of young adults.Homeopathy, vol. 91, no. 2, Apr. 2002, pp. 63–74. Pubmed, doi:10.1054/homp.2002.0003.
Journal cover image

Published In

Homeopathy

DOI

ISSN

1475-4916

Publication Date

April 2002

Volume

91

Issue

2

Start / End Page

63 / 74

Location

Germany

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Students
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Personality Inventory
  • Materia Medica
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Homeopathy
  • Health Status