Alexithymia, Ego-Dystonicity, and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: A Path Modeling Analysis

Wu, Chao; Shi, Chuan; Dong, Wei; Li, Bing; Wu, Rengang

doi:10.1159/000492789

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“…Obsessive thoughts are meaningless, but cause feelings of distress, anxiety, and compulsions that play a significant role in normalizing anxiety. This outcome is in line with some of the findings of Newton and Contrada [38], who showed that anxiety is listed as one of the consequences of obsessive thoughts and characterizes high alexithymia, Alexithymia in healthy persons related to the OC symptoms only through ego-dystonicity -Self-Consistency and Congruence - [39], that Alexithymia makes the individual loses congruence with himself that cause moving toward OC.…”

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Alexithymia as a predictor of Behavioral symptoms in a non-clinical sample

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2023

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Introduction: Alexithymia has been linked to several mental health issues, including depression and schizophrenia. Affective deficits, such as difficulty in emotionalizing and fantasizing, and cognitive deficits including difficulty in recognition, describing, and distinguishing feelings from bodily sensations of emotional arousal, characterize the personality dimension known as alexithymia. Methods: The current study aimed to determine the range of alexithymia contribution to behavioral symptoms among adolescents and adults who did not attend psychiatric clinics and did not receive psychotherapy. Toronto alexithymia Scale TAS-20 was used to measure alexithymia. Items were formulated in the form of positive and negative statements. The Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R ) was the second tool for assisng behavioral symptoms, consisting of nine dimensions. Results: Total of 165 Egyptian participants were recruited in the study. Alexithymia predicted physical symptoms with a positive contribution rate of 29% (p-value=0.0001), obsessive-compulsive (OC) with rate of 12% (p-value= 0.0002), interactive sensitivity with rate of 16% (p-value= 0.0001), depression with rate of 26% (p-value= 0.0001), anxiety with rate of 29% (p-value= 0.0001), hostility with rate of 23% (p-value= 0.0001), fear anxiety with rate of 9% (p-value= 0.0001), imaginary paranoia with rate of 23% (p-value= 0.0001), psychoticism with rate of 19% (p-value= 0.001) and the total degree of symptoms with rate of 36% (p-value= 0.0001). Discussion: The study concluded that alexithymia contribute to the symptoms in rates that ranged mostly between medium and strong levels, and there was no effect statistically significant for the interaction of alexithymia with age and gender in influencing behavioral symptoms.

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Alexithymia as a predictor of Behavioral symptoms in a non-clinical sample

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2023

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Is sustained attention deficit related to subclinical obsessive thoughts in children and adolescents with ADHD?

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Baleyte³

et al. 2020

International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice

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Association Between Alexithymia and Immature Coping Styles Is Mediated by Self-Inconsistency and Is Correlated to Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms

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Dong

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J Nerv Ment Dis

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This study aimed to investigate whether a multivariate association between alexithymia and coping styles is affected by self-inconsistency and whether the association contributed to obsessive-compulsive symptoms in 34 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and 53 healthy participants. Alexithymia, coping styles, self-inconsistency, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms were evaluated using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20, the Coping Style Questionnaire, the Self-Consistency and Congruence Scale, and the Vancouver Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory, respectively. We found that self-inconsistency partially mediated the association between alexithymia and immature coping styles in the OCD patients but fully mediated the association in the healthy participants. Moreover, in the two groups, the alexithymia-coping coupling was related to contamination, obsession, indecisiveness, and ritualization, but not the checking symptom dimension. The findings suggest that the disturbance in identifying and describing feelings is associated with immature coping styles through disharmony between self-recognition and experience. The mechanism of the checking symptom seems to be distinct from other obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

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Alexithymia, Ego-Dystonicity, and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: A Path Modeling Analysis

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Alexithymia as a predictor of Behavioral symptoms in a non-clinical sample

Alexithymia as a predictor of Behavioral symptoms in a non-clinical sample

Is sustained attention deficit related to subclinical obsessive thoughts in children and adolescents with ADHD?

Association Between Alexithymia and Immature Coping Styles Is Mediated by Self-Inconsistency and Is Correlated to Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms

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