Self-Esteem and Alexithymia

Yelsma, Paul

doi:10.2466/pr0.1995.77.3.735

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“…Study findings also revealed that alexithymia was negatively associated with self-esteem which is consistent with research among young adults (Yelsma, 1995;De Berardis et al, 2009;Sasai et al, 2010) and work among Turkish adolescents (Sayar et al, 2005). One possible explanation is that alexithymic individuals show not only emotional awareness, but also experience a lack of social attachment, poor interpersonal relating, and social skills.…”

Section: Cyberbullying Victimization Self-esteem and Alexithymiasupporting

confidence: 88%

“…If alexithymic individuals, however, struggle with interpersonal relating, this might have a negative effect on their self-esteem. There is some empirical evidence to support this proposal for young adults (Yelsma, 1995;De Berardis et al, 2009;Sasai et al, 2010). However, this relationship has not often been studied thoroughly among adolescents.…”

Section: Investigating the Associations Among Cyberbullying Victimizamentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Based on the reviewed literature, there are reasons to expect that cyberbullying victimization is associated with lower self-esteem (Brighi et al, 2012;Brewer and Kerslake, 2015;Wachs et al, 2016;Palermiti et al, 2017;Lei et al, 2019) as well as higher alexithymia (Aricak and Ozbay, 2016). In addition, there is some evidence to suggest that higher alexithymia is correlated with lower self-esteem (Yelsma, 1995;Sayar et al, 2005;De Berardis et al, 2009;Sasai et al, 2010). There is also some evidence for an indirect effect between victimization and negative psychological health via alexithymia (Garisch and Wilson, 2010;Guzzo et al, 2014;Prino et al, 2019).…”

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Cross-National Associations Among Cyberbullying Victimization, Self-Esteem, and Internet Addiction: Direct and Indirect Effects of Alexithymia

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The relationship among cyberbullying victimization, lower self-esteem, and internet addiction has been well-established. Yet, little research exists that explains the nature of these associations, and no previous work has considered the inability to identify or describe one's emotions, namely, alexithymia, as a potential mediator of these links. The present study sought to investigate the indirect effects of cyberbullying victimization on self-esteem and internet addiction, mediated by alexithymia. The sample consisted of 1,442 participants between 12 and 17 years (M age = 14.17, SD = 1.38, 51.5% male) from Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. Results showed a direct relationship between cyberbullying victimization and self-esteem and an indirect association mediated by alexithymia in the Dutch sample. However, in the German and U.S. samples, only an indirect relationship via alexithymia, but not a direct effect of cyberbullying victimization on self-esteem, was found. Consistent across the three country samples, cyberbullying victimization and internet addiction were directly and also indirectly associated via alexithymia. In sum, findings indicate that alexithymia might help better understand which detrimental effects cyberbullying victimization has on adolescent psychological health. Thus, cyberbullying prevention programs should consider implementing elements that educate adolescents on the ability to identify and describe their own emotions.

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Section: Cyberbullying Victimization Self-esteem and Alexithymiasupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Investigating the Associations Among Cyberbullying Victimizamentioning

confidence: 96%

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“…Indeed, both alexithymia and psychological distress have been linked to low selfconfidence (Yelsma, 1995;Liu et al, 2014). One study, using the French translation of the TAS-20, found that both depression and the combined DIF and DDF subscales of the TAS-20 demonstrated strong, negative correlations with self-reported self-confidence (Loas et al, 2000).…”

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Alexithymia is associated with lower confidence in both perceptual and emotion recognition tasks

Torunsky¹,

Vilares²

2020

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Emotions play an important role in everyday decision-making, but emotional awareness can vary greatly between people. Alexithymia, a trait characterized by little or no awareness of one’s emotions, is broadly associated with poor mental health and increased risk of suicide. Alexithymia is fairly common, affecting as much as 10% of people in Western cultures. Understanding how alexithymia relates to decision-making may therefore have wide-reaching impacts on the quality of life for many individuals. We designed and preregistered a study that examined the relationship between alexithymia and decision-making across different task-types. Data were collected from a community sample (N = 123) and participants completed a social, an emotional, and a perceptual decision-making task, as well as a short alexithymia questionnaire. For each task, we considered multiple aspects of the decision-making process, examining participants’ accuracy, confidence, and metacognitive ability (i.e. the ability to retrospectively distinguish between correct and incorrect responses). We found no relationship between alexithymia and performance or metacognitive ability in any task. However, alexithymia was negatively correlated with confidence in both the perceptual and emotional tasks. Furthermore, confidence in one’s decision was strongly, positively correlated across task types, but both accuracy and metacognitive ability showed no relationship between tasks. These results suggest that confidence may be a trait-like, affective component of decision-making, while performance and metacognitive sensitivity appear more task-specific. Furthermore, our results challenge the current limitations of the alexithymia construct, suggesting that alexithymia may have consequences on cognitive processes beyond emotion recognition alone.

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“…Estos estados no son regulados, en cambio, por estrategias psicológicas. Algunas investigaciones señalan que los individuos alexitímicos mantienen pobres relaciones interpersonales (Keltikangas-Jarvinen 1982) y algunos hallazgos recientes señalan que una dificultad para expresar emociones, una de las facetas de la alexitimia, se asocia negativamente con la autoestima subjetiva (Yelsma 1995). Los estudios transversales han documentado asociaciones positivas de la alexitimia con el estrés (Jimerson 1994, Fukunishi et al 1994.…”

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Predictores psicosociales de alexitimia estudiados durante un período de 12 meses en una población femenina de "no casos"

Posse

Hällström

Backenroth-Ohsako

2004

Eur. J. Psychiat. (Ed. esp.)

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Self-Esteem and Alexithymia

Cited by 24 publications

References 15 publications

Cross-National Associations Among Cyberbullying Victimization, Self-Esteem, and Internet Addiction: Direct and Indirect Effects of Alexithymia

Cross-National Associations Among Cyberbullying Victimization, Self-Esteem, and Internet Addiction: Direct and Indirect Effects of Alexithymia

Alexithymia is associated with lower confidence in both perceptual and emotion recognition tasks

Predictores psicosociales de alexitimia estudiados durante un período de 12 meses en una población femenina de "no casos"

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