Psychological characteristics of males with secondary erectile failure

Abstract

This study was designed to obtain objective data on the personality profiles of two groups of males with a primary complaint of erectile failure and compare them to a group of psychiatric patients unselected for sexual dysfunction and to a sexually "normal" control group. Utilizing the Eysenck Personality Inventory, the Institute of Personality and Ability Testing Anxiety Scale, Symptom Checklist, and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, it was determined that males applying to a university/county hospital sex-dysfunction clinic appeared similar to patients seen in the same clinic who were unselected for sex dysfunction and more psychologically disturbed than patients with the same complaint applying for treatment at a private clinic. All three groups showed more psychopathology than sexually normal males. The implications of these findings are discussed.

A population study of the association between sexual function, sexual satisfaction and depressive symptoms in men

“…doi:10.1016/j.jad.2003.12.008 that influences sexual function? Some researchers have included depression and affective disorders as important factors in the complex etiology of erectile dysfunction (ED) (Smith, 1998;Barlow, 1986;Jacobs et al, 1983), whereas others have stressed the role of ED in causing or exacerbating depressive symptoms (Shabsigh et al, 1998), and still others have pointed out that ED and depression may reinforce each other (Mathew and Weiman, 1962;Munjack et al, 1981;Nofzingzer et al, 1993). Almost all of these studies involved clinical series of patients with either ED or depression, and many did not use a control group.…”

Control beliefs and anxiety in heterosexual men with erectile disorder

“…Allerdings wurden in anderen Untersuchungen Unterschiede in psychometrischen Tests gefunden: Munjack et al (1981) verglichen die ¾ngstlichkeit und Depressivität von Männern einer nichtklinischen Stichprobe, von psychisch Kranken und von Patienten mit einer sekundären Erektionsstörung mittels verschiedener psychometrischer Verfahren. Wie hypothetisch angenommen, lagen die sexuell funktionsgestörten Patienten in ihren Testwerten (auf Subskalen des MMPI oder der SCL-90) generell zwischen den psychisch Kranken (der Gruppe mit den höchsten Werten) und den ¹Normalpersonenª.…”