Alexithymia and its relationships with anxiety and depression in eating disorders

Emotion generation and regulation in anorexia nervosa: A systematic review and meta-analysis of self-report data

“…It has been noted that alexithymia may reflect mood disorders and several studies report that group differences and correlations between alexithymia and ED symptoms become non-significant after controlling for anxiety and depression (Eizaguirre, Saenz de Cabezon, Ochoa de Alda, Olariaga, & Juaniz, 2004;Montebarocci et al, 2006;Parling, Mortazavi, & Ghaderi, 2010;Sexton, Sunday, Hurt, & Halmi, 1998). Depression appears particularly associated (Bydlowski et al, 2005;Corcos et al, 2000); yet, its impact is unclear and it may only be a partial mediator (Torres et al, 2015).…”

“…Depression appears particularly associated (Bydlowski et al, 2005;Corcos et al, 2000); yet, its impact is unclear and it may only be a partial mediator (Torres et al, 2015). Even after controlling for depression some studies continue to describe elevated scores (Beadle, Paradiso, Salerno, & McCormick, 2013), particularly for difficulties describing feelings (Speranza et al, 2005) and difficulties identifying and expressing feelings (Eizaguirre et al, 2004;Sexton et al, 1998).…”

The Assessment of Alexithymia in Medical Settings: Implications for Understanding and Treating Health Problems

“…The TAS-20 has a moderate positive correlation with negative affect (De Gucht et al, 2004a, 2004b), yet it is not known how much of the shared variance is due to alexithymic people having elevated negative affect and how much is due to the measure's susceptibility to a negativity response bias or the self-criticism inherent in its item content. Many authors have statistically controlled for negative affect, and this has met with mixed results, with some studies concluding that negative affect accounts for the effects of alexithymia (Bydlowski et al, 2005;Eizaguirre, Saenz de Cabezón, Alda, Olariaga, & Juaniz, 2004), and others reporting that alexithymia remains uniquely predictive (e.g., Luminet et al, 2004;Vermeulen et al, 2006). This inconsistency may be due in part to differences in sample size as well as the criteria applied for deciding whether the effect of alexithymia is eliminated.…”

Integrated modelling for delineating index of subjective well-being: Psychological predictors and method of response functions

“…Those features are thought to reflect deficits in the cognitive processing and regulation of emotions (Taylor and Bagby, 2000). Increasingly, attention has been focused on the assessment of alexithymia, as it has been associated not only with somatic illness (Taylor, 2000) and neuroticism (Pandey and Mandal, 1996), but also with increased depression (Hintikka et al, 2001), anxiety (Eizaguirre et al, 2004), reduced life satisfaction, positive affect and quality of life (Henry et al, 2006). In particular, it was predicted that people with alexithymia would be less satisfied with life due to deficits in self-care and inability to modulate painful affective states.The researches of the associations between body image dissatisfaction and subjective well-being are rare.…”