ホワイトカラー勤務者のアレキシサイミア傾向と嗜好品との関係

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The habit of smoking and drinking is well known to play an important role from the viewpoint of stress management. However, it also has an unfavorable aspect that tobacco and alcohol are closely associated with various diseases. In order to investigate the causative effect of smoking on psychosomatic diseases, we studied relations between the habit and alexithymia. Alexithymic traits which are supposed to contribute to the progress of psychosomatic diseases were assessed by means of MMPI-alexithymia scale. It was revealed that non-smokers were more alexithymic than smokers. Among smokers, those who did not give precise reasons why they tend to smoke were more alexithymic than those who were aware of reasons. There was no significant correlation between the habit of drinking and alexithymic trait. In addition, subjects under treatment for chronic diseases were more alexithy-mic than those who had completed treatment.
1993-06-01