title: Alexithymia and Type A behaviour compared in psychodynamic terms of personality.
abstract: Similarities between alexithymia and Type A behaviour in terms of psychoanalytic personality theory were studied in 164 non-acute surgical patients. The methods used were the Beth Israel Hospital Questionnaire, the Swedish version of the Jenkins Activity Survey and the Lazare-Klerman-Armor personality test. The results showed that alexithymia and Type A behaviour can be compared in terms of compulsive personality. The most evident difference was that certain hysterical features were related to Type A pattern but not to alexithymia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Keltikangas-Järvinen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology*; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000523:psychology; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000523:psychology; D003109:Colonic Diseases, Functional / Q000523:psychology; D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010553:Personality Development; D010556:Personality Tests; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D014434:Type A Personality; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000523:psychology