Psychosocial Correlates of Alexithymia in a Rural Adolescent Residential Population

Powell, Stephanie; Coll, Kenneth M.; Trotter, Ann B.; Thobro, Patti; Haas, Robin

doi:10.1080/0886571x.2011.625284

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“…Notably, examining sex differences in the decreasing trajectory of EC during adolescence revealed key differences between males and females. The results are consistent with past research documenting that adolescent boys tend to score higher than girls on measures of EC (Extremera et al, 2007;Fossati et al, 2014;Oliva et al, 2014;Powell et al, 2011;Rubenstein et al, 2015). The present results indicate that, for girls, understanding emotions may become increasingly more difficult during adolescence.…”

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“…Various studies of EC during adolescence document a consistent sex difference, in which boys tend to score higher on measures of EC than girls (Extremera, Durán, & Rey, 2007;Fossati, Feeney, Maffei, & Borroni, 2014;Oliva, Parra, & Reina, 2014;Powell, Coll, Trotter, Thobro, & Haas, 2011;Rubenstein et al, 2015). Like sex differences in internalizing problems (Hankin et al, 1998), sex differences in EC might emerge over time.…”

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“…Further, studies on EC during adolescence reveal a consistent relationship between emotional clarity and other aspects of adaptive emotion regulation, such as a greater ability to regulate feelings (i.e., emotional repair) and a higher tendency to observe, think about, and attend to emotions (Extremera et al, 2007; Fernández-Berrocal et al, 2006; Salguero et al, 2012). High emotional clarity is also negatively associated with a variety of maladaptive emotion factors, including alexithymia, emotional impulsivity, nonacceptance of emotions, emotional distress, and lacking the ability to carry out goal-directed behavior in the context of negative emotional states (Fossati et al, 2014; Miller, Vachon, & Aalsma, 2012; Perez, Venta, Garnaat, & Sharp, 2012; Powell et al, 2011). These findings demonstrate the utility of emotional clarity as a positive construct associated with adaptive emotional and psychological functioning.…”

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Emotional clarity development and psychosocial outcomes during adolescence.

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Burke³

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Past research on emotional clarity (EC), the ability to identify and label one's own emotions, has illustrated an association between EC deficits and poor psychosocial outcomes during the adolescent years. Although past research has connected EC to psychosocial outcomes during adolescence in cross-sectional and longitudinal designs, no studies have traced the trajectory of EC over time to determine the developmental course of the construct during adolescence. Thus, this study investigated how EC developed over five years during adolescence and what factors were associated with the developmental trajectory of emotional clarity. Participants included a diverse sample of 640 adolescents (M age at Time 1 = 12.55 years; 53.0% female; 52.2% African American; 48.0% eligible for free school lunch). Results indicated that EC tended to decrease over adolescence, and females, on average, had a steeper decline of EC over time than males. The trajectory of EC predicted psychosocial outcomes, including depression and well-being. Results are discussed with the ultimate goal of informing novel prevention and intervention programs to promote adaptive emotional functioning during an influential time in human development. (PsycINFO Database Record

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“…Therefore, adolescents in RC and LA would be deemed more alexithymic than communities, but a recent review has revealed that alexithymia investigation in these populations is scarce (Muzi, 2020). There were four studies where institutionalized adolescents were found more alexithymic than COM peers (Manninen et al, 2011; Muzi & Pace, 2020b; Paull, 2013; Powell et al, 2011), and a unique study on LA adolescents conducted on the same group of the current study, in which they appear more border‐alexithymic than controls (Muzi & Pace, 2020a).…”

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Attachment and alexithymia predict emotional–behavioural problems of institutionalized, late‐adopted and community adolescents: An explorative multi‐informant mixed‐method study

Muzi

Pace

2023

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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ObjectiveCompared to community adolescents (COM), adolescents placed in residential care (RC) or late adopted (LA) appear to show more emotional–behavioural problems. They also appear vulnerable in variables linked to emotional–behavioural problems, such as insecure–disorganized attachment and alexithymia. This study employs a mixed‐method multi‐informant approach to (1) compare adolescents placed in RC, LA and COM in emotional–behavioural problems, attachment and alexithymia and (2) investigate relationships and interplay of attachment and alexithymia concerning emotional–behavioural problems in these three groups.MethodParticipants were 174 adolescents (50 RC, 33 LA and 91 COM; Mage = 15, 53% boys and 47% girls). Adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems were assessed through both caregiver‐reported and self‐reported questionnaires, while attachment and alexithymia were assessed with a mixed method, using interviews and self‐report questionnaires.ResultsThe results showed RC adolescents as more vulnerable in all variables, while LA and COM did not differ. Accounting for the group, attachment and alexithymia cumulatively predicted 25–43% of internalizing problems, and 19–43% of externalizing problems depending on the method of assessment or problems' informant (all p < 0.01). Alexithymia was both an independent predictor and interacted with preoccupied attachment in predicting internalizing problems, while no predictors were isolated for externalizing ones, and the group never indicate an effect on problems' rates.ConclusionsThe authors discuss the utility to maintain a research focus on attachment and alexithymia, also suggesting future directions of research. A need to determine potential distortions of results because of problems' informant and method of assessment is also highlighted.

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“…The anxiety levels of individuals with high alexithymia levels are also high, these individuals are experiencing social despair and therefore have difficulty in developing a harmonious identity (Martin and Pihl, 1986). It was also revealed that adolescents with high alexithymia level had various discrepancies in their interpersonal relationships by having problems in terms of being aware and expressing their emotions (Powell, Coll, Trotter, Thobro and Haas, 2011). In her study Taylor (2000) also states that alexithymia prevents the individual's identity to form in a compatible way (Taylor, 2000).…”

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2020

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The main purpose of this study is to investigate whether alexithymia significantly predict the identity functions. Another aim of this article is that the studies on alexithymia Turkey are mostly in the field of psychiatry and the studies on non-clinical individuals are inadequate. 696 students (58% female, 42% male) attending various Anatolian High Schools in Konya, Kırşehir and Mardin provinces in the 2019-2020 academic year constitute the scope of this research and their ages are between 14-18 years old mean 15.38±1.104. Toronto Alexithymia Scale and Identity Functions Scale were used as a data collection tool. In the study, correlation analysis was carried out to address the relationships among variables. In addition, multiple regression analysis was applied to determine the level of Alexithymia dimensions. Research results have shown that there is a negative significant relationship between identity functions and difficulty in recognizing emotions and difficulty in expressing emotions. The results indicated that while high school students difficulty of recognizing emotions and the difficulty of expressing emotions increases, the level of function provided by the emotion of identity decreases.

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Psychosocial Correlates of Alexithymia in a Rural Adolescent Residential Population

Cited by 8 publications

References 36 publications

Emotional clarity development and psychosocial outcomes during adolescence.

Emotional clarity development and psychosocial outcomes during adolescence.

Attachment and alexithymia predict emotional–behavioural problems of institutionalized, late‐adopted and community adolescents: An explorative multi‐informant mixed‐method study

Aleksitimi ve Kimlik İşlevleri Arasındaki İlişkiler: Lise Öğrencileri Üzerinden Bir İnceleme

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