Stress perception is considered as an important factor among a variety of ones having effects
on diseases. Thus, patients with psychosomatic disorders were compared with those with
emotional disorders and those with both the disorders in degree of s...
Stress perception is considered as an important factor among a variety of ones having effects
on diseases. Thus, patients with psychosomatic disorders were compared with those with
emotional disorders and those with both the disorders in degree of stress pereception. The
former showed lower scores than the latter two in stress perception, but there was no significant
difference between the latter two. These results indicate that extent of stress perception depends
on emotional state. In the psychosomatic patients, stress perception was noted to be positively
correlated with frequency of life events, both positive and negative, although the latter was
more likely to influence stress perception than the fromer. It indicates that recent perception
of stress is influenced by frequency of life events regardless of their qulaity. There was also
positive correlation between negative life events before one year and scores of stress perception
in interpersonal relationship, which indicates that past life events influence recent perception
of stress. It was found that stress perception was influenced by age and level of education in
the psychosomatic patients with or without emotional disorders.
The above results suggest that cognitive therapy as well as biofeedback treatment could be
applied to prevention and treatment of psychosomatic disorders.