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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"alexithymia"”.
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Maternal control, shame, and alexithymia
… with many psychological difficulties, including alexithymia (i.e. the inability to identify and express what one is feeling) and shame (i.e. pervasive feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy; Kooiman et al., 2004; Kapur & Rai, 2013). A controlling mother can make her child feel like she lacks …
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Alexithymia in Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
… in adults with inflammatory bowel disease. Alexithymia, defined as a personality trait and affective deficit disorder, may represent another psychological variable influencing health outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease populations. While no prior studies have investigated alexithymia in …
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Alexithymia and trauma in the prison population
Alexithymia has been increasingly associated with criminal behaviour, impulsivity, aggression, and difficulties in emotion regulation, with research suggesting that it may be more common in prison populations than in the general population. Trauma has also been proposed as a potential factor …
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The Relationship Between Alexithymia, Wellness, and Substance Dependence
This study examined the relationship between alexithymia, wellness, and substance dependence. Exploration of the relationship between alexithymia, emotional development, and wellness is largely absent in the literature, as is the use of wellness orientation in substance dependence treatment. This …
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Secondary Traumatic Stress and Alexithymia in High-Risk Professionals
… deficits in emotional processing (i.e., alexithymia) play in the development of traumatic responses, such as secondary traumatic stress (STS), following work with clients who have experienced trauma. Using a prospective cohort of novice counselling psychology and pre-service education …
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The Interplay between Interoceptive and Cognitive Components in Alexithymia
Alexithymia is a multidimensional psychiatric construct indicating impaired emotional awareness. Its main features are (i) difficulties in identifying feelings and distinguishing them from bodily sensations, (ii) difficulties describing feelings to others, (iii) an externally oriented style of …
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Emotional Awareness and Alexithymia: Emotional Processing and Regulation in Adolescence
… identified as alexithymic or non-alexithymic. Alexithymia involves difficulty identifying and describing emotions and has been used to classify individuals with extremely low emotional awareness. The second study examined the effects of alexithymia on the three emotional response domains in …
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The Relations Among Culture, Parental Socialization of Emotions, and Alexithymia
… of parental socialization of emotions (PSE), and alexithymia. Participants were European American (EA) and Asian American (AA) college students. Alexithymia was measured using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale and the Identification and Communication of Emotions Scale. PSE was measured retrospectively …
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What is the relationship between attachment difficulties, alexithymia, and substance misuse? A systematic literature review. And Investigating the relationship between alexithymia, depression, and problematic benzodiazepine use.
… relationship between attachment difficulties, alexithymia, and substance misuse? A systematic literature review. Background: Substance misuse is common within the United Kingdom, having significant impact on health and public spending. It is important to understand the risk factors of substance …
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Alexithymia in a psychiatric population: Stability and relationship with therapeutic outcome
Alexithymia has been defined as a personality construct that involves difficulties identifying and describing feelings, as well as an externally oriented thinking style and impoverished fantasy life, which places individuals at risk for various psychopathologies. For psychiatric populations, it …
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The relationship between alexithymia and self-harm: a mixed methods investigation
… of why people who self-harm score more highly on alexithymia, a trait characterised by difficulties identifying and describing feelings and an externally-orientated thinking style. With rates of self-harm increasing, understanding this complex phenomenon remains a research priority. Method A …
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ASSESSING ALEXITHYMIA IN LAW ENFORCEMENT: THE ROLE OF SERVICE TENURE AND SEX
<p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p> <p>Alexithymia, characterized by difficulties in identifying and expressing emotions, has significant implications for professions requiring emotional intelligence and trauma-informed response. Law enforcement officers routinely navigate high-stress encounters that …
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Individual differences in anxiety sensitivity: The role of emotion regulation and alexithymia
… and ability to communicate his or her feelings (alexithymia). Anxiety sensitivity and alexithymia did not, in fact, vary across the Chinese, Malay, and Indian students sampled. However, Singapore participants in general reported far higher anxiety sensitivity and trait anxiety scores than similar …
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Comparative analysis of irrational beliefs and alexithymia to predict anxiety, neuroticism, and depression
… Others have theorized that a condition known as alexithymia is responsible for emotional distresses. Literally "no words for feelings," alexithymia is a condition where individuals are unable to describe their feelings, they are unable to distinguish between their feelings and bodily sensations, …
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The Role of Alexithymia in Ethnic Groups on Eating-Related Attitudes and Behaviors
<p>Alexithymia, a term referring to deficits in ability to describe and differentiate emotions, has been studied in a variety of Caucasian medical and psychiatric populations, including patients with eating disorders. Research suggests that alexithymia is more prevalent among the Caucasian eating …
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Investigating Sex Differences in the Association Between Alexithymia and Adjustment Outcomes Among Detained Youth
Alexithymia is a form of maladaptive emotion processing whereby individuals experience low emotional awareness, or the inability to identify and communicate their emotions. Such impairment is a risk factor for difficulties, including both externalizing and internalizing behaviors. Extant research …
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The role of emotion regulation and alexithymia in the relationship between sleep and social functioning
… role in this complex relationship. Specifically, alexithymia and the use of different emotion regulation strategies may serve as moderators in the relationship between sleep and social functioning. Alexithymia and emotion regulation strategies are both related to sleep quality and social …
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Alexithymia subscales have distinct roles in both the variability of arousal ratings and in associations with anxiety and psychological inflexibility
Alexithymia is a subclinical cluster of deficits in emotional processing prevalent across a wide variety of clinical populations. One alexithymia component, difficulty identifying feelings (DIF), appears the most related to both distress and treatability. Unfortunately, effects of alexithymia on …
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Duet for life: Is alexithymia a key note in couples’ empathy, emotional connection, relationship dissatisfaction, and therapy outcomes?
Alexithymia is an emotion-related construct involving difficulties identifying, describing, and processing emotion, which hinder the capacity to provide empathy, and the development of emotionally connected intimate relationships. To date, there has been minimal investigation of the impact of …
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LSRP: Defence styles, alexithymia, illness perceptions, and HRQOL in IBD. Systematic lit: Neurodegenerative diseases and third wave therapies
… is required. <br/><br/>LSRP: Defence styles, alexithymia, illness perceptions, and HRQOL in IBD<br/>Background/aims: The role of psychological factors in the development and progression of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is not completely understood. Several studies have suggested that …
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