ArticleJournal of eating disorders2019
Alexithymia predicts maladaptive but not adaptive emotion regulation strategies in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa or depression.
Article in Journal of eating disorders, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06841302 (Investigation of Alexithymia Levels in Fibromyalgia Syndrome Before and After Treatment), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Investigation of Alexithymia Levels in Fibromyalgia Syndrome Before and After Treatment
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- Does Evidence Support an Emotion Regulation Model of Anorexia Nervosa? A Systematic Review of Over a Decade of Research.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- A stochastic model for affect dynamics: methodological insights from heart rate variability in an illustrative case of Anorexia Nervosa.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Subscales of alexithymia show unique pathways through reappraisal and suppression to anxiety, depression and stress.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Early evaluation of a DBT-informed online intervention for people with eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- What about males? Exploring sex differences in the relationship between emotion difficulties and eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Internet Addiction among Young Adult University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Peritraumatic Distress, Attachment, and Alexithymia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Family, friends, and feelings: the role of relationships to parents and peers and alexithymia in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Parental-Bonding and Alexithymia in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa, Their Parents, and Siblings.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Emotion Regulation as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Cognitive Biases and Depressive Symptoms in Depressed, At-risk and Healthy Children and Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
- Trait Emotional Intelligence and School Burnout Discriminate Between High and Low Alexithymic Profiles: A Study With Female Adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Alexithymia, aggressive behavior and depression among Lebanese adolescents: A cross-sectional study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundAmong adolescent girls, anorexia nervosa (AN) and major depression (MD) are common and often comorbid mental health problems. Both disorders are characterised by difficulties in recognising and verbalising (alexithymia) as well as regulating one's emotions, but research in adolescent patients is scarce and little is known about the relation between alexithymia and difficulties in emotion regulation. The aims of this study were to investigate alexithymia and emotion regulation skills in adolescents with AN, adolescents with MD, and healthy adolescents, and to determine whether alexithymia functions as a predictor for emotion regulation skills.
methodsEmotion regulation strategies, alexithymia, and depressive symptoms were assessed by questionnaire measures in 12-18 year old girls with AN (
resultsGirls with AN or MD both reported using adaptive emotion regulation strategies less frequently and maladaptive emotion regulation skills more frequently as well as higher levels of alexithymia compared to healthy girls. Alexithymia positively predicted maladaptive emotion regulation strategies, while depressive symptoms negatively predicted adaptive emotion regulation strategies.
conclusionsThe results suggest that different mechanisms may underlie the lack of adaptive and the surplus of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies in adolescent psychiatric patients.
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