Weeping: Associations with personality, coping, and subjective health status

Vingerhoets, AdJ.J.M.; Berg, Mariëlle P. Van den; Kortekaas, Robert Th.J.; Heck, G.L. van; Croon, Marcel A.

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“…Nevertheless, hardly any reports are available about the nonverbal modes of emotional ex pression, for example, crying and facial ex pressions. We have already addressed the first issue in an earlier study [11] in which it was shown that alexithymia was negatively associ ated with self-reported weeping frequency. Thus, normal individuals, scoring high on an alexithymia questionnaire, not only express emotions verbally to a lesser extent compared with low-alexithymic individuals, they also report to cry less frequently.…”

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Alexithymia: A Further Exploration of Its Nomological Network

Vingerhoets

Heck²,

Grim³

et al. 1995

Psychother Psychosom

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The present studies were designed in order to obtain a better understanding of the nomological network of the alexithymia concept. In study I, the links between alexithymia, coping, and self-rated health were explored. As predicted, strong negative correlations were found between alexithymia and the expression of emotions, daydreams and fantasies, and planful and rational actions. Contrary to expectations, no clear associations were found with self-reported health status. In study II, the focus was on links with personality, temperament, and self-reported (susceptibility to) homesickness. Although some correlations reached statistical significance, all were rather modest. The most remarkable finding was the independence of alexithymia and neuroticism. In study III, the associations between alexithymia and aspects of love experiences were examined, again yielding low correlations. It is concluded that alexithymia is relatively independent of temperament and personality. In addition, it is suggested that the association between alexithymia and the experience of positive emotions deserves further exploration.

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“…In a pre vious study [11], it was shown that alexithy mia was negatively related to weeping fre quency, i.e., low-AAS subjects weep more fre quently than individuals high on alexithymia.…”

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Alexithymia: A Further Exploration of Its Nomological Network

Vingerhoets

Heck²,

Grim³

et al. 1995

Psychother Psychosom

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“…This deviation from 'normal' behavior resembles that of persons with alexithymia who present difficulties in perception and verbalization of emotions and in distinction between vegetative feelings and emotions [35,36]. According to Vingerhoets et al [25] alexithymia was associated with low weeping frequency.…”

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“…There are some studies on alexithymia in eating disorder patients [20][21][22][23][24] which show anorexic and bulimic patients to be more alexithymic than controls. To our knowledge, there is only one study on weeping and alexithymia [25] revealing a negative relationship between crying frequency and alexithymia but no study on weeping in eating disorder patients.…”

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The Weeping Behavior in Anorexic and Bulimic Females

Mangweth

Kemmler

Ebner

et al. 1999

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The weeping behavior in anorexic and bulimic females Mangweth, B.; Kemmler, G.; Ehner, C.; de Col, C.; Kinzl, J.; Biebl, W.; Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M. Published in: Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Document version:Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Publication date: 1999Link to publication Citation for published version (APA):Mangweth, B., Kemmler, G., Ehner, C., de Col, C., Kinzl, J., Biebl, W., & Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (1999). The weeping behavior in anorexic and bulimic females. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 68(6), 319-324. General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.-Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research -You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain -You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright, please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Abstract Background:The aim of the study was to examine the proneness, the functions and triggering situations of weeping in anorexic and bulimic women. Methods: Participants were 36 anorexic and 31 bulimic female patients and 56 age-matched female controls. All women completed the Questionnaire on Adult Crying. We limited our study to results on 'crying proneness', 'functions of crying' and 'determining factors of crying'. Results: Bulimic patients reported to have cried significantly more often in the last 4 weeks, to be more likely to cry in situations of distress and to have used weeping significantly more often as a manipulative behavior than control women. Anorexic patients rated their tendency to cry significantly lower and experienced weeping as significantly more negative than controls. Conclusions: Compared to control women, anorexic patients associated weeping with negative feelings as opposed to bulimic patients who appeared to use weeping on an intentional basis. These deviations from control women seem to mirror the introvert character of anorexic patients and the extrovert impulsive personality of patients with bulimia nervosa, respectively.

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“…Another study observed that patients with rheumatoid arthritis who were able to cry with tears in an emotional experiment had better disease control than patients who were not able to cry with tears (Ishii, Nagashima, Tanno, Nakajima, & Yoshino, 2003). A reduction of crying ability may be determined by a multitude of factors independent of ocular dryness that may differ between people with and without a chronic disease such as emotional (e.g., depressive mood), cognitive and social context variables (Bylsma et al, 2008;Messmer, 2009;Rottenberg, Bylsma, Wolvin, & Vingerhoets, 2008;Vingerhoets, Van den Berg, Kortekaas, Van Heck, & Croon, 1993;Vingerhoets et al, 2000;Vingerhoets, 2013).…”

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Crying Without Tears: Dimensions of Crying and Relations With Ocular Dryness and Mental Well-Being in Patients With Sjögren’s Syndrome

Leeuwen

Bossema

Vermeer

et al. 2015

J Clin Psychol Med Settings

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This study examined dimensions of crying and its relations with ocular dryness and mental well-being in patients with Sjögren's syndrome, a systemic autoimmune disease with dryness as primary symptom. Three-hundred patients with Sjögren's syndrome completed questionnaires on crying, dryness, and well-being. The crying questionnaire revealed four dimensions: ''Cryability'' (comprising both crying sensibility and ability to cry), Somatic consequences, Frustration, and Suppression. Compared to 100 demographically-matched control participants from the general population, patients scored low on Cryability and high on Somatic consequences and Frustration. The crying dimensions generally showed significant but weak associations with ocular dryness and mental well-being in patients. This is the first quantitative study indicating that crying problems are more common in patients with Sjög-ren's syndrome than in the general population. Perhaps, patients who experience problems with crying could be helped to rely on other ways of expressing emotions than crying in tear-inducing situations.

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Weeping: Associations with personality, coping, and subjective health status

Cited by 27 publications

References 14 publications

Alexithymia: A Further Exploration of Its Nomological Network

Alexithymia: A Further Exploration of Its Nomological Network

The Weeping Behavior in Anorexic and Bulimic Females

Crying Without Tears: Dimensions of Crying and Relations With Ocular Dryness and Mental Well-Being in Patients With Sjögren’s Syndrome

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