Browsing by Subject "Alexithymia"
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Alexithymia in children with and without autism spectrum disorders
(2016)Alexithymia refers to pronounced difficulty in identifying and describing one's own emotions and is associated with an externally oriented focus of thinking. Alexithymia is known to be much more common in adults with autism ...
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Alexithymia predicts arousal-based processing deficits and discordance between emotion response systems during emotional imagery
(American Psychological Association, 2016)Alexithymia is believed to involve deficits in emotion processing and imagery ability. Previous findings suggest that it is especially related to deficits in processing the arousal dimension of emotion, and that discordance ...
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Emotion dysregulation in alexithymia: Startle reactivity to fearful affective imagery and its relation to heart rate variability
(2017)Alexithymia is associated with deficiencies in recognizing and expressing emotions and impaired emotion regulation, though few studies have verified the latter assertion using objective measures. This study examined startle ...
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Emotion processing deficits in alexithymia and response to a depth of processing intervention
(2014)Findings on alexithymic emotion difficulties have been inconsistent. We examined potential differences between alexithymic and control participants in general arousal, reactivity, facial and subjective expression, emotion ...
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Psychosocial predictors of health outcomes in colorectal cancer: A comprehensive review
(2014)Background: A diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) and its long-term treatment may lead to significant psychological distress and impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for a significant proportion of patients. ...