The longitudinal effects of alexithymia on romantic relationships

Hesse, Colin; Gibbons, Stephanie

doi:10.1111/pere.12294

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“…Above and beyond the theoretical tenets tested above, a multitude of other studies have identified variables that are associated with relational maintenance processes including personality traits such as the big five (and the use of Facebook for maintenance activities; Seidman, 2019), Machiavellianism (Ragsdale & Brandau‐Brown, 2005), and psychological traits such as alexithymia, which is an inability to describe emotion (Hesse & Gibbons, 2019). The traits of wanting to be valued and perceived to be valued by others have both been independently associated with maintenance mechanisms such as positive sentiment toward partners, self‐reported maintenance behaviors, perceptions of partners' maintenance behaviors (e.g., enacting sacrifice, affection, warmth, and support), and observations of responsive and unresponsive behaviors (Lemay & Spongberg, 2015).…”

Section: Reflecting On the Past: What Maintenance Research Has Beenmentioning

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A systematic review of relationship maintenance: Reflecting back and looking to the future

Ogolsky

Stafford

2022

Personal Relationships

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Relationship maintenance processes include a wide range of activities and cognitions that romantic partners engage in to sustain or enhance their relationships. In this article, we review literature from the past two decades (2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020)(2021). We focus on key definitional and conceptual issues in the study of relational maintenance. Guided by a lens of intersectionality, we then perform a theoretically-driven review of the empirical articles published over the last 20 years paying careful attention to the nature of the samples, methods, and privileged research questions. We conclude by offering a reflection on the current state of this literature and provide suggestions for future research.

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Section: Reflecting On the Past: What Maintenance Research Has Beenmentioning

confidence: 99%

A systematic review of relationship maintenance: Reflecting back and looking to the future

Ogolsky

Stafford

2022

Personal Relationships

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“…For example, people with alexithymia (dysfunction in the ability to identify and describe emotions) typically lack words to describe their emotional experiences. Participants higher in alexithymia tend to judge an affective stimulus, such as negatively-valenced musical stimuli, as more neutral than those low in alexithymia (Hesse & Gibbons, 2019; Larwood et al, 2020).…”

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Emotion and its Management: The Lens of Language and Social Psychology

Gallois

Vanman

Kalokerinos

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Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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In this paper, we briefly review the large research literature on emotion in social psychology, and show how it is now firmly embedded in language and communication. As a springboard, we look at the history of emotion studies in JLSP. Then, we consider theory and methodology, and evaluate how standard and more recent methods of measurement have led to new ways of looking at the communication of emotion, including in real-life contexts. We conclude with suggestions for a research agenda that takes the study of emotion forward into the heartland of research in language and social psychology.

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“…The latest studies on alexithymia have adopted an interpersonal perspective, aiming to identify the effect of alexithymia on affective and social relationships. Alexithymia has been shown to negatively affect one’s ability to understand and relate to others; it is associated with poor social and affective skills, a low level of social support [ 34 , 35 ], and problems in couple relationships [ 36 , 37 , 38 ].…”

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The Relationship between Paternal Alexithymia and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Behavioral Problems during Early Childhood

Scarzello

2023

Children

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The literature has long recognized that parental emotional competence, that is, the ability to express, understand, and regulate emotions, plays a key role in children’s development from early childhood. Nevertheless, the effect of parental alexithymia, which can be understood as a deficit in emotional competence, has not been thoroughly studied. In particular, the association between paternal alexithymia and behavioral problems in young children is still a neglected area of research. This study aims to investigate the association between paternal alexithymia and children’s internalizing and externalizing problems during the first three years of life, including whether overreactive parenting practices mediate the effect of alexithymia on children’s behavioral problems. A sample of 203 fathers of children aged 18–36 months were administered the TAS-20, the Overreactivity subscale of the Parenting Scale, and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)/1½-5. The data indicate that paternal alexithymia is a predictor of children’s internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems and that paternal overreactivity mediates the effect of alexithymia. These results highlight the importance of preventing parental alexithymia and involving fathers in parenting support programs aimed at ensuring children’s mental health and adjustment.

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The longitudinal effects of alexithymia on romantic relationships

Cited by 11 publications

References 54 publications

A systematic review of relationship maintenance: Reflecting back and looking to the future

A systematic review of relationship maintenance: Reflecting back and looking to the future

Emotion and its Management: The Lens of Language and Social Psychology

The Relationship between Paternal Alexithymia and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Behavioral Problems during Early Childhood

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