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Analysis of the bio-psychological characteristics of Sasang typology in Korean preschool children using the ponderal index and the temperament and character inventory

  • Sun Haeng Lee , Minwoo Hwang , Seong Heon Choi , Hyung Joong Kim , Eun Ju Lee , Chan-Young Kwon , Sun Yong Chung , Jong Woo Kim and Gyu Tae Chang EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: August 26, 2020
Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine
From the journal Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine Volume 18 Issue 1

Abstract

Objectives

The aim of this study was to identify different physical and mental characteristics among three common Sasang types, Tae-eum, So-yang, and So-eum (except scarce type, Tae-Yang) in preschoolers, to improve constitutional diagnoses.

Methods

Our study included 65 boys and 67 girls from six kindergartens in South Korea. The number of children who were categorized as Tae-Yang, Tae-Eum, So-Yang, and So-Eum types were 1, 56, 40, and 35, respectively. We measured height, weight, mid-parental height, predicted adult height, ponderal index (PI), and findings from the junior temperament and character inventory 3 to 6.

Results

The Tae-eum type exhibited higher weight percentiles and PIs than the other types (p < 0.001), and the So-eum type displayed higher harm avoidance (HA) scores than the Tae-eum type (p = 0.033).

Conclusions

Children with high PIs and low HA scores have a higher probability of being classified as the Tae-eum type than as the So-eum type.

Keywords: constitution; harm avoidance; junior temperament and character inventory 3 to 6; ponderal index; sasang typology
Corresponding author: Gyu Tae Chang, Department of Clinical Korean Medicine, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea; and Department of Pediatrics of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gang-dong, Dongnam-ro 892, Gangdong-gu, Seoul, 05278, Republic of Korea. Phone: +82-2-440-7126, Fax: +82-2-440-7143, E-mail:

  1. Research funding: None declared.

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.

  5. Ethical approval: This research was conducted in accordance with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Kyung Hee University Korean Medicine Hospital at Gang-dong Institutional Review Board (KHNMCOH 2014-04-001-001), Gangdong-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

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Received: 2017-12-07
Accepted: 2020-02-17
Published Online: 2020-08-26

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Keywords for this article
constitution; harm avoidance; junior temperament and character inventory 3 to 6; ponderal index; sasang typology

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