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Tattoo and personality traits in Croatian veterans

To examine whether tattooed patients, treated for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) caused by war at the ward for Psycho-trauma of the Clinic Hospital osijek, differ from non-tattooed patients by certain personality traits. The study was conducted one one hundred Croatian veterans who were divide groups with respect to the presence/absence of tattoo. To assess symptoms of PTSD, the Clinical Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS-2) was used for all subjects. To assess personality traits the following psychology tests were applied: Purdue non-verbal IQ test, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-1), Eysenck's Questionnaire (EPQ/A and EPQ/IVE). With respect to the examined pre-traumatic variables and PTSD symptoms, the two groups manifested no differences. The non-tattooed group achieved higher scores on the IQ test (IQ=100) than the tattooed group (IQ=95). EPQ test showed results either above or below the norms on all scales that that were applied. The tattoed group demonstrated significantly higher levels of impulsiveness, adventurism, empathy an neuroticism than non-tattooed one (p<0.05. In the group of 100 Croatian veterans treated for PTSD, 33 had tattoos and 67 did not. The results indicated more impulsiveness, adventurism / risk behavior, emphathy and neuroticism in the tattooed group than the non-tattoed group while there was no significant difference in the intensity of the PTSD symptoms.

tattoo; personality traits; PTSD

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