OBJECTIVE Alexithymia refers to difficulty in identifying and expressing emotions, and it is a characteristic common to several psychiatric and medical conditions, including autoimmune disorders. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disorder with increased psychiatric comorbidity. Previously reported associations between alexithymia and T1D may have been confounded by the presence of depressi...

I examined the relationships among childhood abuse, alexithymia, and personality disorder. Participants were 60 adults who were receiving outpatient psychotherapy. Both the participants and their therapists used the Toronto Alexithymia Scale to provide independently information concerning the client's level of alexithymia. The therapists provided information concerning DSM-III-R personality dis...

This study examines the relationship between internal–external locus of control, alexithymia, and adult attachment style. A population of 220 undergraduate medical students at the University of Vienna completed, in a single session, the Questionnaire of Competence and Control Orientation (FKK), the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), and the Adult Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ). Results f...

In discussions on the several methodological limitations in the assessment of alexithymia, uncertainty still remains about whether alexithymia and somatization are distinct constructs or whether they share overlapping symptomatology and constructs, as suggested by previous studies. In this study, 379 normal adults completed the newly developed 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and a sc...

aim and background: alexithymia is a psychological construct that is prevalent in a wide range of psychiatric and medical disorders. because of its importance in mental and physical health, many surveys today assess the different aspects of alexithymia in clinical and nonclinical populations. the aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of alexithymia and compare male and fema...

Background Latent trigger points (LTrPs) can be activated by future events, leading to pain. Few studies have reported LTrP risk factors. It has been suggested that alexithymia is associated with myofascial pain and diminished awareness of physical sensation. This study was designed to evaluate the relation between alexithymia and LTrPs found the upper trapezius of healthy individuals. Method...

The aim of the study was to investigate the role of alexithymia in bronchial asthma (BA) patients with low respiratory functioning hypothesizing that it could be used to differentiate a group of patients with clinically significant anxiety and depressive symptoms. We also aimed to investigate whether alexithymia was associated with reduced cognitive insight. Patients (n=153) were administered t...

Non-motor symptoms such as neuropsychiatric and cognitive dysfunction have been found to be common in Parkinson's disease (PD) but the relation between such symptoms is poorly understood. We focused on alexithymia, an impairment of affective and cognitive emotional processing, as there is evidence for its interaction with cognition in other disorders. Twenty-two non-demented PD patients and 22 ...

Poor attention has been dedicated to the relation between Alexithymia and specific OCD symptoms dimensions. Knowledge about which Alexithymia domains are the most affected ones in OCD dimensions could inform clinical practice, suggesting the need for the introduction of psychotherapeutic interventions targeting Alexithymia deficits. The current study aimed to investigate which OCD symptom dimen...

BACKGROUND Alexithymia, a reduction in the tendency to think about emotions, together with a difficulty in identifying and describing feelings, has been characterized as a personality trait, but may be secondary to other pathological conditions. OBJECTIVE The authors aimed at investigating alexithymia in Parkinson's disease (PD). METHOD Seventy PD patients and 70 control subjects were admin...