Baggi L, Rubino IA, Zanna V, Martignoni M. Personality disorders and regulative styles of patients with temporo-mandibular joint pain dysfunction syndrome.
Percept Mot Skills 1995;
80:267-73. [PMID:
7624203 DOI:
10.2466/pms.1995.80.1.267]
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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.
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