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Alexithymia and drinking motivations among male patients with alcohol dependency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

C. Evren ,
R. Aksoy ,
S. Celik ,
T. Cetin  and
D. Tamar-Gürol
C. Evren
Affiliation:
Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey
R. Aksoy
Affiliation:
Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey
S. Celik
Affiliation:
Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey
T. Cetin
Affiliation:
Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey
D. Tamar-Gürol
Affiliation:
Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey

Abstract

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Objective

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between alexithymia and drinking motivations among male patients with alcohol dependency.

Method

Participants were 136 male patients consecutively admitted to an alcohol dependency treatment unit. The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and the Drinking Motives Questionnaire—Revised (DMQ-R) were administered to all participants.

Results

In alexithymic group (N = 44, 32.4%) duration of education was lower, whereas current age, age onset of regular alcohol use, marital and employment status did not differ between groups. Scores of drinking motives and severity of general psychopathology were higher in alexithymic group. Alexithymia total and factors of alexithymia (other than thirth factor) were positively correlated with drinking motives. TAS- difficulty in identifing feelings was significant covariant for enhancement, coping and confirmity motives, whereas TAS- difficulty in describing feelings was significant covariant for only confirmity motives in MANCOVA analysis.

Conclusions

These suggest that drinking motives may be a mediator in the relationship between alexithymia alcohol dependence.

Type
P01-36
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 36
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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