Kleiger J H, Jones N F
J Nerv Ment Dis. 1980 Aug;168(8):465-70. doi: 10.1097/00005053-198008000-00003.
Alexithymic characteristics in 100 chronic respiratory illness patients were assessed by means of the Beth Israel Psychosomatic Questionnaire (BIQ). The study was designed to explore the relationship of alexithymia to various demographic variables and three disease categories (asthma, tuberculosis, and chronic obstructive respiratory disease). The BIQ was found to yield a high inter-rater reliability when the interviews were conducted and rated in a systematic manner. Significant relationships were found between alexithymia and age, marital status, and disease categories; however, the latter two relationships appear to some extent to be artifacts of the age differences of the subjects among categories. More research is needed to understand the nature of the relationship between alexithymia and age, but it should also be profitable to examine the relationship of this variable to medical outcome.
通过贝斯以色列身心问卷（BIQ）对100名慢性呼吸道疾病患者的述情障碍特征进行了评估。该研究旨在探讨述情障碍与各种人口统计学变量以及三类疾病（哮喘、肺结核和慢性阻塞性呼吸道疾病）之间的关系。当访谈以系统的方式进行和评分时，发现BIQ具有较高的评分者间信度。述情障碍与年龄、婚姻状况和疾病类别之间存在显著关系；然而，后两种关系在某种程度上似乎是不同类别受试者年龄差异的产物。需要更多的研究来了解述情障碍与年龄之间关系的本质，但研究该变量与医疗结果之间的关系也应该是有益的。
