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Alexithymia among empirically derived subgroups of chronic back pain patients
1Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa 33620-8200.
Journal of Personality Assessment
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
A seeded cluster analysis procedure was applied to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) profiles of 102 male and 63 female back-pain patients. For both men and women, the resulting subgroups were found to correspond closely to similar subgroups obtained in several previous investigations. New data on the psychometric properties of the MMPI Alexithymia scale (Kleiger & Kinsman, 1980) are presented. Significant differences in alexithymia among empirically derived MMPI subgroups were found in the male sample only.