Abstract
A first study has shown that dependent personalities were more alexithymic than personalities with non-dependent disorders. The aim of this study was to test the stability of the relationship between dependent personality and alexithymia using the same sample of patients re-interviewed three months later. One hundred and eighty four subjects were recruited among a population of patients requesting descriptive certificates after suffering from assault and battery. The subjects filled out three questionnaires: The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the questionnaire of the SCID-II (Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV) three months after being included in the study: The 184 subjects were divided into three subgroups according to the SCID-II: 72 without personality disorders, 103 with non-dependent personality disorders and nine with dependent personality disorders. Analyses of variance and Chi-square tests were done to compare the TAS-20 scores or the rates of alexithymic subjects among the three subgroups. Dependent personalities had higher scores on the TAS-20 than controls but their scores did not significantly differ from those of subjects with non-dependent personality disorders. The present study suggested that alexithymia would not be specific of dependent personality disorders.
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