2004
DOI: 10.1159/000075542
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Childhood Adversities as Risk Factors for Alexithymia and Other Aspects of Affect Dysregulation in Adulthood

Abstract: Background: Affect regulation is assumed to be a biologically based function that can become disrupted by inadequate parenting and by traumatic experiences. We studied the relation between the perceived parental parenting style, and sexual and physical abuse, with alexithymia, dissociation, anxiety and depression. Methods: In a cross-sectional study psychiatric outpatients were administered a structured interview on childhood physical and sexual abuse and they completed a number of questionnaires about the par… Show more

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“…Replication studies should overcome these shortcomings and extend the findings to other clinical samples and particularly to nonclinical samples. Despite these methodological limitations, we believe that an interpersonal perspective may add valuable insights to a better understanding of alexithymia in several research settings [44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50]and might help to refine therapeutic strategies for alexithymic patients.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Replication studies should overcome these shortcomings and extend the findings to other clinical samples and particularly to nonclinical samples. Despite these methodological limitations, we believe that an interpersonal perspective may add valuable insights to a better understanding of alexithymia in several research settings [44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50]and might help to refine therapeutic strategies for alexithymic patients.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Conceivably, this association is accounted for by the deep influence of early attachment experiences on the development of emotional and cognitive skills involved in affect regulation [37, 38]. Interestingly, alexithymia was recently found to be associated with recalled parental rearing styles likely to result in insecure attachment, such as overprotection or low care [39]. …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is a considerable amount of alexithymia research in Dutch-speaking countries in medical and psychiatric patient populations using self-report alexithymia scales (e.g., Kooiman, van Rees Vellinga, Spinhoven, Draijer, Trijsburg, & Rooijmans, 2004;Vanheule et al, 2007;WingbermĂŒhle, Egger, Verhoeven, van der Burgt, & Kessels, 2012). Moreover, a Dutch study in a clinical population is the first -to our knowledge -that examined the convergence between more than two alexithymia measures simultaneously (Meganck, Inslegers, Vanheule, & Desmet, 2011).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%