TY  - JOUR
A1  - Arens, Elisabeth A.
A1  - Christoffel, Muriel
A1  - Stangier, Ulrich
T1  - Value priorities and value conflicts in patients with mental disorders compared to a general population sample
T2  - Scientific reports
N2  - Personal values are considered as guiding principles for humans’ attitudes and behavior, what makes them an essential component of mental health. Although these notions are widely recognized, investigations in clinical samples examining the link between values and mental health are lacking. We assessed n = 209 patients with affective disorders, neurotic disorders, reaction to severe stress, and adjustment disorders and personality disorders and compared them to a stratified random sample (n = 209) drawn from the European Social Survey. Personal values were assessed using the Portraits Value Questionnaire. Severity of psychopathology was assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory and the Brief Symptom Inventory. Clinical participants showed a higher preference for the values power, achievement and tradition/conformity and a lower preference for hedonism compared to controls. Patients exhibited more incompatible value patterns than controls. Across diagnostic groups, patients with neurotic disorders reported incompatible values most frequently. Value priorities and value conflicts may have the potential to contribute to a better understanding of current and future actions and experiences in patients with mental disorders.
KW  - Human behaviour
KW  - Psychiatric disorders
KW  - Psychology
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/69545
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-695450
SN  - 2045-2322
N1  - The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
N1  - Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
VL  - 12
IS  - art. 3974
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
PB  - Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
CY  - [London]
ER  -