TITLE:
The Relationship between Aggressiveness and Gender in Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
AUTHORS:
Olga V. Vorob’eva, Julia I. Stadnyuk
KEYWORDS:
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Interictal Aggressiveness, Typology of Interictal Aggressiveness, Gender, Social Gender
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Neuroscience,
Vol.6 No.4,
October
12,
2016
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.