ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2019
Trait Autism is a Better Predictor of Empathy than Alexithymia.
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- Neurodiversity and mental health in adulthood: exploring the unique contributions of autism and ADHD to internalising problems.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Differential roles of alexithymia components in linking autistic traits to personal distress and empathy concern.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Narrative discourse comprehension in Greek-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder: evidence from Aesop's fables.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Heightened empathic responses led by imbalanced cortico-amygdala circuit inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Empathy and Autism: Establishing the Structure and Different Manifestations of Empathy in Autistic Individuals Using the Perth Empathy Scale.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Social Anhedonia Accounts for Greater Variance in Internalizing Symptoms than Autism Symptoms in Autistic and Non-Autistic Youth.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Influences of heart rate feedback and autistic traits on affective mindreading.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- No association between alexithymia and emotion recognition or theory of mind in a sample of adolescents enhanced for autistic traits.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
- On the Relationship Between Alexithymia and Social Cognition: A Systematic Review.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2024Review
- Linearly integrating speed and accuracy to measure individual differences in theory of mind: Evidence from autistic and neurotypical adults.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- The mediating role of emotional regulation and emotional expression in the relationship between autistic traits and empathy in Saudi students.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2024Article
- Relationships between Affect Recognition, Empathy, Alexithymia, and Co-Occurring Conditions in Autism.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Relationships between alexithymia, interoception, and emotional empathy in autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2023Article
- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder traits are a more important predictor of internalising problems than autistic traits.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Emotion processing differences mediate the link between sex and autistic traits in young adulthood.JCPP advances · 2022Article
- Autism traits outweigh alexithymia traits in the explanation of mentalising performance in adults with autism but not in adults with rejected autism diagnosis.Molecular autism · 2022Article
- Empathic Accuracy and Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Young Adults With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Distinct neurocognitive bases for social trait judgments of faces in autism spectrum disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
- Alexithymia and Autistic Traits as Contributing Factors to Empathy Difficulties in Preadolescent Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- The Current View on the Paradox of Pain in Autism Spectrum Disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
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Abstract
It has been proposed that atypical empathy in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is due to co-occurring alexithymia. However, difficulties measuring empathy and statistical issues in previous research raise questions about the role of alexithymia in empathic processing in ASD. Addressing these issues, we compared the associations of trait alexithymia and autism with empathy in large samples from the general population. Multiple regression analyses showed that both trait autism and alexithymia were uniquely associated with atypical empathy, but dominance analysis found that trait autism, compared to alexithymia, was a more important predictor of atypical cognitive, affective, and overall empathy. Together, these findings indicate that atypical empathy in ASD is not simply due to co-occurring alexithymia.
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