title: Personality disorders and regulative styles of patients with temporo-mandibular joint pain dysfunction syndrome.
abstract: A sample of 42 women patients with Temporo-mandibular Joint Pain Dysfunction Syndrome was given the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II and the Serial Color-Word Test. Compared with sex- and age-matched nonclinical controls, temporo-mandibular patients had significantly (1) higher scores on the Obsessive-Compulsive scale, (2) lower scores of ITa (a pattern concerned with initial times of response), and (3) higher scores of R (linear increase in reading times during the trials). The latter intergroup difference concerned mainly the first subtest, i.e., temporo-mandibular patients were characterized by higher scores of R from the very beginning of the process of adaptation.
authors.affiliation: Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Baggi
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Rubino
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zanna
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martignoni
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D013706:Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*