Arrindell W A, Emmelkamp P M
Br J Psychiatry. 1985 Apr;146:405-14. doi: 10.1192/bjp.146.4.405.
It has been contended that psychological characteristics of the partner of the agoraphobic patient are important factors in the development and maintenance of the patient's symptoms. To examine this hypothesis, male partners of female agoraphobics were compared with those of non-phobic psychiatric patients and of normal controls on a total of 48 measures referring to several symptom complexes and traits, including defensiveness. The partners of agoraphobics as a group were not found to be more defensive or psychologically more disturbed than their control counterparts. Additional within-couple analyses across groups showed spouses in the control couples to be more comparable to each other than were agoraphobics and their partners-a finding which was attributed to the highly elevated scores of the agoraphobic patients.
有人认为，广场恐惧症患者伴侣的心理特征是患者症状发展和维持的重要因素。为了检验这一假设，对女性广场恐惧症患者的男性伴侣与非恐惧症精神科患者及正常对照组的男性伴侣进行了比较，共涉及48项指标，这些指标涉及多种症状复合体和特质，包括防御性。结果发现，广场恐惧症患者的伴侣作为一个群体，并不比其对照组的伴侣更具防御性或心理上更紊乱。跨组的夫妻内部分析还显示，对照组夫妻中的配偶彼此之间比广场恐惧症患者及其伴侣更具可比性——这一发现归因于广场恐惧症患者的得分极高。
