Emotion regulation difficulties in alexithymia and mental health

Pandey, Rakesh; Sexena, Prachi; Dubey, Akhilesh

doi:10.1037/e617512012-003

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“…Consequently, particularly complex emotional states, such as contentment, might be more frequently misidentified as other similar emotional categories (e.g., amusement and pleasure) following a less analytical process. Furthermore, we suggest that it would occur in HA only, because of their subjective affect hyperarousal tendency (Connelly and Denney, 2007) and their associated lack of affect regulation competence (Pandey et al, 2011).…”

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Joint effect of alexithymia and mood on the categorization of nonverbal emotional vocalizations

Bayot¹,

Pleyers²,

Kotsou³

et al. 2014

Psychiatry Research

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General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. The role of stable factors, such as alexithymia (i.e., difficulties identifying and expressing feelings, externally oriented cognitive style), or temporary factors, such as affective states (mood), on emotion perception has been widely investigated in the literature. However, little is known about the separate or joint effect of the alexithymia level and affective states (positive affectivity, negative affectivity) on the recognition of nonverbal emotional vocalizations (NEV) (e.g., laughs, cries, or sighs). In this study, participants had to categorize NEV communicating 10 emotions by selecting the correct verbal emotional label. Results show that the level of alexithymia is negatively correlated to the capacity to accurately categorize negative vocalizations, and more particularly sad NEV. On the other hand, negative affectivity appeared negatively correlated with the ability to accurately categorize NEV in general, and negative vocalizations in particular. After splitting the results by the alexithymia level (high vs. low scorers), significant associations between mood and accuracy rates were found in the group of high alexithymia scorers only. These findings support the idea that alexithymic features act across sensory modalities and suggest a mood-interference effect that would be stronger in those individuals.

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confidence: 89%

Joint effect of alexithymia and mood on the categorization of nonverbal emotional vocalizations

Bayot¹,

Pleyers²,

Kotsou³

et al. 2014

Psychiatry Research

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“…Based on our findings it was revealed that overall high incidence of alexithymia and its associated symptoms was found in the general adult population of Quetta, Balochistan affecting both the genders. Such individuals not only suffer from cognition dysfunction but also from emotion regulation difficulties leading to unstable mental health [36,37]. …”

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Prevalence of Alexithymia in the General Adult Population of Quetta, Balochistan in Pakistan

Khan¹

2017

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Alexithymia is recognized as a medical condition in which an individual fails to express his feelings rather suppressing their thoughts and face difficulties in distinctive emotions leading to a number of neuropsychiatric issues. By means of measuring emotional intensity based on the professed reality of external stimuli, inferences could be drawn to indicate distinctive response patterns of such individuals. Therefore incidence of alexithymia was studied in the general adult population of Quetta Balochistan by using a well-recognized measuring scale TAS-20. High prevalence of alexithymia was found in both the genders i.e., Males (93%) and Females (87%) suggesting that predominance of negative emotional experiences and disturbed cognitive functioning in alexithymia may result in unstable mental status of individuals with conditions like somatic complaints, anxiety, depression and even social dysfunction.

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“…An increased prevalence of alexithymia, relative to rates observed in the general population, is also seen in neurological conditions including Multiple Sclerosis (Chahraoui et al, 2008), Parkinson's Disease (Costa, Peppe, Carlesimo, Salamone, & Caltagirone, 2010), and following traumatic brain injury (TBI) (Henry, Phillips, Crawford, Theodorou, & Summers, 2006;Wood & Williams, 2007), providing evidence of "acquired alexithymia" following presumed typical development. Alexithymia has been found to increase the likelihood of a number of other socio-emotional deficits, including difficulties recognising emotions from both faces (Cook, Brewer, Shah, & Bird, 2013;Grynberg et al, 2012; although see McDonald et al, 2011) and voices (Heaton et al, 2012), reduced levels of empathy (Bird et al, 2010), and difficulties regulating one's own emotion (Pandey et al, 2011). Alexithymia is also associated with impaired learning and decision-making (Bibby & Ferguson, 2011;Ferguson et al, 2009;Kano, Ito, & Fukudo, 2011), increased self-harm (Norman & Borrill, 2015), and negatively impacts the effectiveness of most psychotherapy (Lumley, Neely, & Burger, 2007;Mccallum, Piper, Ogrodniczuk, & Joyce, 2003).…”

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Language and alexithymia: Evidence for the role of the inferior frontal gyrus in acquired alexithymia

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The clinical relevance of alexithymia, a condition associated with difficulties identifying and describing one's own emotion, is becoming ever more apparent. Increased rates of alexithymia are observed in multiple psychiatric conditions, and also in neurological conditions resulting from both organic and traumatic brain injury. The presence of alexithymia in these conditions predicts poorer regulation of one's emotions, decreased treatment response, and increased burden on carers. While clinically important, the aetiology of alexithymia is still a matter of debate, with several authors arguing for multiple 'routes' to impaired understanding of one's own emotions, which may or may not result in distinct subtypes of alexithymia. While previous studies support the role of impaired interoception (perceiving bodily states) in the development of alexithymia, the current study assessed whether acquired language impairment following traumatic brain injury, and damage to language regions, may also be associated with an increased risk of alexithymia. Within a sample of 129 participants with penetrating brain injury and 33 healthy controls, neuropsychological testing revealed that deficits in a non-emotional language task, object naming, were associated with alexithymia, specifically with difficulty identifying one's own emotions. Both region-of-interest and whole-brain lesion analyses revealed that damage to language regions in the inferior frontal gyrus was associated with the presence of both this language impairment and alexithymia. These results are consistent with a framework for acquired alexithymia that incorporates both interoceptive and language processes, and support the idea that brain injury may result in alexithymia via impairment in any one of a number of more basic processes.

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Emotion regulation difficulties in alexithymia and mental health

Cited by 32 publications

References 23 publications

Joint effect of alexithymia and mood on the categorization of nonverbal emotional vocalizations

Joint effect of alexithymia and mood on the categorization of nonverbal emotional vocalizations

Prevalence of Alexithymia in the General Adult Population of Quetta, Balochistan in Pakistan

Language and alexithymia: Evidence for the role of the inferior frontal gyrus in acquired alexithymia

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