Somatothymia in chronic pain patients

Somatothymia is the use of somatic language to communicate affective distress. A total of 152 chronic pain patients completed a systems review checklist and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Associated features of somatic symptoms and the meaningfulness of somatic symptoms as a commun...

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Published inPsychosomatics (Washington, D.C.) Vol. 35; no. 5; p. 460
Main Authors Iezzi, A, Stokes, G S, Adams, H E, Pilon, R N, Ault, 3rd, L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 01.09.1994
Subjects
Adult
Affective Symptoms - psychology
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
MMPI - statistics & numerical data
Pain - psychology
Psychometrics
Psychophysiologic Disorders - psychology
Reproducibility of Results
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Summary:Somatothymia is the use of somatic language to communicate affective distress. A total of 152 chronic pain patients completed a systems review checklist and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Associated features of somatic symptoms and the meaningfulness of somatic symptoms as a communication, common physical areas of somatic focus, patterns of affective distress in high and low somatothymics, and the utility of select variables classifying high and low somatothymics were evaluated. The results indicate that a systems review checklist can be used as a quick, useful, and initial screen for somatothymia and that somatic symptoms can in fact communicate affective distress.
ISSN:0033-3182
1545-7206
DOI:10.1016/S0033-3182(94)71740-0