ArticleThe Psychiatric quarterly2013
Alexithymia and emotional intelligence in patients with panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder.
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- Mood and Emotions among Inmates after COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Disorder-Specific Profiles of Self-Perceived Emotional Abilities in Schizophrenia and Major Depressive Disorder.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Objective and Subjective Measurement of Alexithymia in Adults with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- Alexithymia.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2021Review
- Effect of Coronavirus-19 on Mental Condition of International Students in China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Mood Disorders in High-Functioning Autism: The Importance of Alexithymia and Emotional Regulation.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
- Alexithymia and tic disorders: a study on a sample of children and their mothers.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2019Article
- Examining Brain Structures Associated With Emotional Intelligence and the Mediated Effect on Trait Creativity in Young Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Prevalence and associated factors of alexithymia among adult prisoners in China: a cross-sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2017Article
- Predicting adolescent postpartum caregiving from trajectories of depression and anxiety prior to childbirth: a 5-year prospective study.Archives of women's mental health · 2016Article
- Alexithymia and Addiction: A Review and Preliminary Data Suggesting Neurobiological Links to Reward/Loss Processing.Current addiction reports · 2016Article
- Sense of alexithymia in patients with anxiety disorders comorbid with recurrent urticaria.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2016Article
- Psychomotor retardation and externally oriented thinking in major depression.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2013Article
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Abstract
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a broad personality construct signifying the ability to perceive and to regulate affects within oneself. Alexithymia is another personality construct denoting difficulty in identifying and expressing emotions, with an externally oriented thinking style. Although previously considered to be independent, some studies have shown that these constructs overlap. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the levels of EI and alexithymia in patients with panic disorder, major depressive disorder (MDD), and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). The subjects included 171 psychiatric patients and 56 non-clinical controls. Psychiatric diagnoses were based on DSM-IV criteria. The Emotional Intelligence Scale-34 (EIS-34) and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) were used to assess EI and alexithymia. All three patient groups scored statistically significantly higher than the non-clinical controls on TAS-20 total score and the TAS-20 subfactors of difficulty identifying feelings and difficulty describing feelings. EIS-34 scores were lower in patient groups than in the non-clinical controls, but only the EIS-34 intrapersonal subscale was significant difference. Total TAS-20 and EIS-34 scores in the patient cohort were inversely and significantly correlated These results reaffirm an overlap between EI and alexithymia with the intrapersonal factor of EI to be more dependent on the difficulty identifying feelings dimension of alexithymia in subjects with MDD and GAD.
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