Patterns of adaptation in asthma and psoriasis

Patterns of adaptation to a conflict situation were explored by means of th e repeated confrontation with the Stroop task (Serial Color-Word Test) in t wo clinical groups: bronchial asthma (n=40) and psoriasis (n=28). The respe ctive psychosomatic component of each of these syndromes was expected to co rrespond to peculiar patterns of adaptation. Differences between asthma and psoriasis patients were statistically significant. Asthma was characterize d by patterns with high values of nonlinear change, both within each subtes t (Primary Types) and across the five subtests (Secondary Types). Psoriatic patients mere classified most often as baring the C-V type (high linear in crease of nonlinear changes across the subtests) and showed some mure ITAtypes, i.e., within the first subtest, longer reading time at the beginning , followed by uniformly faster times.