The impact of social and psychological factors on mental and somatic disorders

• Main Author: K. S. Maksymenko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kamianets-Podilskyi National Ivan Ohiienko University, National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, G.S.Kostiuk Institute of Psychology 2017-01-01
• Series: Проблеми сучасної психології
• Subjects: social and psychological factors; impact; causality; psychological determinants; mental disorders; organism’s disease states; multicausality; peculiarities; individual psychological factors.
• Online Access: http://journals.uran.ua/index.php/2227-6246/article/view/156872/156208

The author proves that social and psychological factors influence on the mental and somatic disorders or diseases in different ways, paying attention to the direct impact of social and psycho-logical factor; indirect impact and the influence through the «body variables» including adjustments, values and goals. Additional conditions of influence comprise interactions in a family, the lack of social competence, which can complicate, in particular, the course of depressions. The organic and psychological defects and deficiencies, leading to the manifestation and aggravation of mental and somatic disorders are noted. It is shown that one can not underestimate the significance and complexity of the links and variables that underlie the potential and actual mechanisms being the base of the etiology of a particular disease. The causality of mental disorders is proved to have complex character; the necessary point is solving the problem on a differentiated understanding of the specific causes. It is concluded that psychological researches should be aimed at understanding the specifics of multicausality, namely, which psychological factors act in the same plane, and others are in different planes. It is proved that the essence of causation issues of a variety of organism’s disease states is to examine the features of the complex interactions between pathogenic and protective internal and external factors.