Abstract
Purpose: To examine the impact of gender and social gender on the level and typology of interictal aggressiveness in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Material and Methods: 40 adult patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) and 86 healthy individuals were included. The qualitative and quantitative aggressiveness assess- ment was made with Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory. The gender role behavior was measured with Bem Sex Role Inventory. Results: Patients with TLE didn’t differ from healthy subjects on the total scores of motor and attitudinal hostility components, but scored higher on subscales “resentment” and “guilt”. The comparative gender analysis showed there were no phenomenological differences in people with TLE. Assault dominated in healthy male subjects, resentment—in healthy female subjects. The prevalence of feminine social gender type was significantly higher in people with TLE in comparison to healthy people (55% vs. 26%, p 0.01). In patients with TLE, the number of masculine traits positively correlated with indirect hostility subscale and attitudinal hostility component scores. In healthy subjects, the masculine traits positively correlated with assault.
Highlights
The relationship between epilepsy and aggressiveness is a controversial issue
The mean level of anxiety and depression in people with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) was normal, but significantly higher than in healthy people (Table 3). 15% of patients had mild anxiety according to Hospitality Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) (8 - 10 p.), 18% had moderate anxiety (11 - 14 p.), 3% had severe anxiety (15 - 21 p.). 13% of patients had subclinical depression (8 - 10 p.), 3% had moderate depression (11 - 14 p.)
According to the aim of our study we examined the type of gender role behavior in Aggressiveness, anxiety and depression in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and healthy subjects
Summary
The relationship between epilepsy and aggressiveness is a controversial issue. A multicenter Italian study, which used the standardized test Aggression Questionnaire, showed that the level of interictal aggressiveness in people with epilepsy was even lower than that in healthy subjects [1]. At the same time, communitybased studies show that aggressive behavior is typical for some groups of people with. I. Stadnyuk 228 epilepsy (McDermott, 1995; Seo et al, 2015). Not well studied is the relationship between aggressiveness and personality traits in patients with epilepsy. The aim of our study was to estimate the influence of sex and gender characteristics on the level and typology of interictal aggressiveness in patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE)
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