생활사건，사회지지，대처방식에 대한 전환장애와 신체화장애와의 비교연구

A Comparative Study of Conversion Disorder and Somatization Disorder about Life Events, Social Support and Coping Skills

This study was designed to compare conversion disorder, somatization disorder patients to the matched controls about life events, social support, and coping skills. The number of subjects were 22 with conversion disorder, 21 with somatizaion disorder and 19 normal controls. Stress items. Interpersonal social-support assesement items, and The ways of coping chechlist for clinical assesement were administered to all subjects to evaluate each relevant areas. In life events, conversion disorder patients and somatization disorder patients showed significantly hight moderate events than normal controls. In social support and coping skills, patients with conversion disorder or somazation disorder were significantly lower than controls. Converison disorder showed to have less active coping but more passive coping than those with somatization disorder. Conversion disorder patients reported more life events than somatization disorder patients along with lacking in social support and coping skills. Somazation disorder patients showed much higher superior support-seeking score than conversion dirsorder patients. 9These differences may be considered to play some rolse in showing different clinical manifestations in the somazation disorder and conversion disorder.