TY - JOUR
T1 - Attribution of cause by patients with depression, anxiety, and alexithymia
AU - Wise, Thomas N.
AU - Kheriaty, Aaron D.
AU - Sheridan, Michael J.
PY - 2004/2
Y1 - 2004/2
N2 - This study evaluated the relationship between the personality construct of alexithymia and the attribution of depression to biological, psychological, sociocultural, and external stress. When alexithymia was considered as a continuous variable, there was a significant correlation between a higher score on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale and a greater belief in psychological causes for their psychiatric disorder. The other factors also had positive but nonsignificant correlations with alexithymia. When alexithymia was categorically partitioned and controlled for depressed mood, alexithymic subjects more frequently endorsed all four factors to be causal for their psychiatric illness. This appears to contradict earlier assumptions that alexithymic patients tend to be less psychologically minded than those without this psychological trait.
AB - This study evaluated the relationship between the personality construct of alexithymia and the attribution of depression to biological, psychological, sociocultural, and external stress. When alexithymia was considered as a continuous variable, there was a significant correlation between a higher score on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale and a greater belief in psychological causes for their psychiatric disorder. The other factors also had positive but nonsignificant correlations with alexithymia. When alexithymia was categorically partitioned and controlled for depressed mood, alexithymic subjects more frequently endorsed all four factors to be causal for their psychiatric illness. This appears to contradict earlier assumptions that alexithymic patients tend to be less psychologically minded than those without this psychological trait.
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U2 - 10.2466/pr0.94.1.259-263
DO - 10.2466/pr0.94.1.259-263
M3 - Article
C2 - 15077775
AN - SCOPUS:2342508436
SN - 0033-2941
VL - 94
SP - 259
EP - 263
JO - Psychological reports
JF - Psychological reports
IS - 1
ER -