Affective temperament in women with functional aphonia.
Journal of Voice(2013)
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to assess the affective temperament in women with functional aphonia.Cross-sectional.Forty-one women with functional aphonia underwent an examination of affective temperament by means of the Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa and San Diego Autoquestionnaire.Compared with the reference group, women with functional aphonia show significantly higher rates of depressive and anxious temperament.The results of the present study are concordant with the previous findings, indicating elevated levels of depressive and anxious symptoms in aphonic patients. Implications for the therapy of functional aphonia as well as considerations for further studies are discussed.
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Key words
Functional aphonia,Temperament,TEMPS-A
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