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‘Dominance’ personality trait and immune system in healthy volunteers

✍ Scribed by F. P. Meyer; U. Tröger; S. Ansorge; A. Ittenson; U. Bank; F. Bühling; J. Läuter; F.-W. Röhl

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
127 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6222

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✦ Synopsis

Correlations between dominant personality traits and certain diseases or high-risk factors for diseases mediated by the immune system have been postulated and, to some extent, veri®ed for over 30 years. We believed that certain correlations between immunological target parameters and personality traits exist even in healthy subjects. Determining the personality structure and an immunological pro®le in 69 volunteers, we found signi®cant dierences for leukocytes and the subpopulations CD4, CD13, HLA-DR, and pronounced dierences for CD20, CD14 and the interleukines IL 2 and sIL-2R between the dominant and submissive subjects. Furthermore, case analysis of extreme subjects showed that dominant subjects exhibited an apparently more activated immune system than did submissives.

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