TY - JOUR
T1 - Alexithymia in patients attending a sexual disorders clinic
AU - Wise, Thomas N.
AU - Osborne, Cynthia
AU - Strand, Julia
AU - Fagan, Peter F.
AU - Schmidt, Chester W.
PY - 2002/10
Y1 - 2002/10
N2 - We measured alexithymic traits with the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS; Bagby, Taylor, & Parker, 1988) in 170 individuals attending a sexual disorders clinic. We diagnosed 114 of the subjects with a sexual dysfunction and 56 with paraphilic disorders. We determined that 20.2% of the dysfunctional group and 26.8% of the paraphilic were alexithymic when the TAS was measured categorically. When we considered the TAS as a dimensional variable, the subset with paraphilias had significantly higher scores on the TAS only when depressed mood, as measured by the Brief Symptom inventory (Derogatis, 1993), was covaried. These data suggest that alexithymia in both sexually dysfunctional and paraphilic individuals is related to depressed mood, although the effect is more pronounced in paraphilics.
AB - We measured alexithymic traits with the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS; Bagby, Taylor, & Parker, 1988) in 170 individuals attending a sexual disorders clinic. We diagnosed 114 of the subjects with a sexual dysfunction and 56 with paraphilic disorders. We determined that 20.2% of the dysfunctional group and 26.8% of the paraphilic were alexithymic when the TAS was measured categorically. When we considered the TAS as a dimensional variable, the subset with paraphilias had significantly higher scores on the TAS only when depressed mood, as measured by the Brief Symptom inventory (Derogatis, 1993), was covaried. These data suggest that alexithymia in both sexually dysfunctional and paraphilic individuals is related to depressed mood, although the effect is more pronounced in paraphilics.
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U2 - 10.1080/00926230290001556
DO - 10.1080/00926230290001556
M3 - Article
C2 - 12378846
AN - SCOPUS:0036787777
SN - 0092-623X
VL - 28
SP - 445
EP - 450
JO - Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
JF - Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
IS - 5
ER -