The difficulty in identifying, differentiating and expressing emotions is a neuropsychological condition called alexithymia. During the last years it has grown the interest of scientific community for alexithymia, in particular in chronic conditions. Crescent literature data demonstrated that a considerable number of SLE patients present difficulty not only in identifying, differentiating, and ...

Purpose: Purpose of this descriptive research is to examine the correlation of alexithymia, anger and binge eating behavior of university students to prepare the basic data to develop nursing intervention which could be helpful to control anger and binge eating behavior. Method: Study subjects were targeting 412 university students and the correlation between alexithymia, anger and binge eating...

Virtually everyone has experienced from time to time how hard it can be to put one’s feelings into words. Yet, for some individuals, this task is especially daunting. Such individuals are characterized by high levels of alexithymia (“no words for feelings”). Alexithymia is a personality dimension that involves both cognitive deficits, including difficulties in recognizing, describing, and disti...

Alexithymia is a psychological trait characterised by difficulty in perceiving and expressing emotions and body sensations. Failure to perceive dyspnoea could lead alexithymic asthmatics to underestimate the severity of an asthma exacerbation, and thereby increase the risk of developing a fatal or near-fatal asthma (NFA) attack. The objective of the present study was to determine the prevalence...

BACKGROUND: Alexithymia (“no words for feelings”) is a psychological construct that can be divided in a cognitive and affective dimension. The cognitive dimension reflects the ability to identify, verbalize and analyze feelings, whereas the affective dimension reflects the degree to which individuals get aroused by emotional stimuli and their ability to fantasize. These two alexithymia dimensio...

Background: Alexithymia is associated to Eating Disorders (ED) and relevant for their prognosis but it is uncertain if it is ubiquitous, primary, and necessary for ED outburst. Methods: 124 ED outpatients and 80 healthy controls were compared with the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, personality, and psychopathology measures. Alexithymia and the other features are compared between anorexia nervosa (A...

INTRODUCTION In recent years alexithymia and attachment theory have been recognized as two parallel research lines trying to improve the information on the development and maintenance of eating disorders (EDs). However, no research has analyzed these constructs among patients' families. In this study we compared alexithymia and attachment in mothers of patients with EDs and a control group. Fur...

Alexithymia is characterized by difficulties identifying feelings and differentiating between feelings and bodily sensations, difficulties communicating feelings, and a concrete cognitive style focused on the external environment. Individuals with eating disorders have elevated levels of alexithymia, particularly difficulties identifying and describing their feelings. A number of theoretical mo...

The purpose of this study was to examine the linkages between alexithymia and delinquency in male adolescents (age ranging from 14 to 18 years), and to investigate whether alexithymia was a good discriminatory factor for juvenile delinquency. Thirty-six offender adolescents and 46 non-offender control adolescents participated in the study and completed the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS...

AIM To investigate abnormalities in automatic information processing related to self- and observer-rated alexithymia, especially with regard to somatization, controlling for confounding variables such as depression and affect. SAMPLE 89 healthy subjects (60% female), aged 19-71 years (M = 32.1). 58 subjects were additionally rated by an observer. MEASURES Alexithymia (self-rating: TAS-20, o...