The role of psychophysiologic and anthropometric descriptions in the beginning of psychosomatic pathology: is the deficiency of body weight a risk factor?

In order to find out psychophysiologic preconditions for the beginning of psychosomatic pathology, 264 clinically healthy persons of both sexes were examined (the average age was 22,16 + 2,42). All of them were divided into 2 groups according to their body weight index: the first group had normal body weight index, the second had deficiency of body weight. With the help of psychodiagnostic methods (Reduced Multiple Questionnaire for the examining of the Personality, Psychogeometrical test, Spielberger's test, Subbotin's test, Ekkles's test) it was found that persons with deficiency of body weight had had conflicting personality features, which form prepsychosomatic radical of personality. It underlies the development of psychosomatics diseases and deviant behavior.