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Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 1986 May;8(3):163-7. doi: 10.1016/0163-8343(86)90075-7.
This article compares the prevalence of alexithymia among chronic pain patients, their spouses, and psychoneurotic outpatients using the Beth Israel Questionnaire (BIQ) and the MMPI subscale for alexithymia. Both instruments showed the pain patients to be significantly more alexithymic than the psychoneurotic controls, but not more alexithymic than their normal spouses. Comparison of the two instruments showed that the MMPI subscale did not correlate highly with the BIQ. When demographic variables were assessed, age was found to be correlated with alexithymia. Theoretical and treatment implications of these findings are discussed.
本文使用贝斯以色列问卷（BIQ）和明尼苏达多相人格调查表（MMPI）的述情障碍分量表，比较了慢性疼痛患者、其配偶以及神经症门诊患者中述情障碍的患病率。两种工具均显示，疼痛患者的述情障碍程度显著高于神经症对照组，但并不高于其正常配偶。两种工具的比较表明，MMPI分量表与BIQ的相关性不高。在评估人口统计学变量时，发现年龄与述情障碍相关。文中讨论了这些发现的理论和治疗意义。
