Are persons with migraine characterized by a high degree of ambition, orderliness, and rigidity?

Abstract

Participating in the study were 69 persons with migraine and 69 controls, matched for sex and age, and all being patients of a neurologist. They filled out a questionnaire purporting to measure personality traits regarded as characteristic for the migraine personality type, namely ambition, orderliness, and rigidity. No differences between groups in any of the scales were revealed using t tests, results being far from significant. No support was thus given for the assumption of a typical personality structure of migrainous subjects. This is in accordance with our findings from previous studies with non-clinical samples.