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Nose job patients display personality disorders |
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Friday, 03 August 2007 |
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A new study indicates that many patients seeking a nose job, or rhinoplasty, actually exhibit personality disorders including hypochondriasis, obsessiveness, and a practice called "good faking", whereby the person makes false statements in order to make themselves look better by comparison.
The authors of the report, published in the recent issue of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery, evaluated the personality profiles of 66 patients seeking a nose job to determine what their anticipated satisfaction with the outcome of the rhinoplasty would be. None of the patients ranked as normal on the personality test, compared to 40 percent of people in a control group.
The nose job patients also exhibited a greater rate of "negative" personality traits;
- 23% were obsessive
- 20% were hypochondrial
- 20% were good faking
- 12% were bad faking
The patients with the lowest expectation of satisfaction with the rhinoplasty were those who scored as obsessive, anti-social and psychasthenic” (excessive doubts, compulsions, obsessions and unreasonable fears).
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