[Personality and coping with stress in patients suffering from functional dysphonia]

The examination covers the personality of 20 functional dysphonics, 14 individuals suffering from organic voice disorders and a group of 20 control persons when exposed to stress and its working up. In examining the group of functional dysphonics a significant positive self-assessment regarding their personality with a clear tendency to restraint has become clear. In comparison with the control persons an intensified anxiety state in situations causing stress is the result. Thus the influence of life events has been shown to have an important effect on the etiopathogenesis of functional dysphonia.