ArticleThe American journal on addictions2020
Alexithymia, Emotion-Regulation Strategies, and Traumatic Experiences in Prenatally Cocaine-Exposed Young Adults.
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- Alexithymia mediates white-matter microstructure and substance use escalation in trauma-exposed individuals.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- How alexithymia impacts the association between interpersonal trauma and somatization.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- The Bridge Between Childhood Trauma and Alexithymia Among Adolescents with Depressive and Bipolar Disorders: A Network Bridge Analysis.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- A Chain mediation model linking experiential avoidance, cognitive flexibility, negative emotions, and sleep quality in university students.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Associations of childhood trauma with clinical features and inflammatory cytokines in adolescents with first-episode and recurrent major depressive disorder.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- The mediating effect of alexisomia between childhood abuse and depression/stress in a sample of Lebanese adults: A cross-sectional study.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Social network site addiction, sleep quality, depression and adolescent difficulty describing feelings: a moderated mediation model.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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- Subscales of alexithymia show unique pathways through reappraisal and suppression to anxiety, depression and stress.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Relationship of gambling disorder with traumatic life events and emotion regulation in adolescents and young adults.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2023Article
- Latent classes of eating disorders and addictions by sex: Implication of alexithymia and stressful life events in youths.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The process of emotion identification: Considerations for psychiatric disorders.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Review
- Alexithymia and Insecure Attachment among Male Intimate Partner Violence Aggressors in the Dominican Republic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesExposure to early-life trauma may lead to maladaptive characteristics such as alexithymia, and thus to poorer emotional regulation. This relationship may also be influenced by exposure to substances prenatally. We hypothesized that increased alexithymia would be seen in those with prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE). Additionally, we hypothesized that early-life trauma would be associated with alexithymia, and that alexithymia would be associated with poor emotional reappraisal and emotional suppression.
methodsA moderated mediation model was developed to examine whether the hypothesized indirect relationship between trauma and emotional reappraisal through alexithymia was different in young adults with and without PCE (Total N = 57). Thirty-seven young adults with PCE and 20 with no such exposure, all of whom were members of a longitudinal cohort, were recruited for the study, and data concerning childhood trauma, alexithymia, and emotional regulation were collected. Intercorrelations were performed between the scores on each measure and moderated mediation models were constructed separately with emotional neglect or emotional abuse as the independent variable and emotional reappraisal or emotional suppression as the dependent variable.
resultsPCE status was associated with alexithymia, and alexithymia mediated the relationship between emotional neglect and emotional reappraisal in individuals with PCE but not those without. DISCUSSION AND
conclusionsThe data suggest that alexithymia is a mechanism underlying poor use of emotional reappraisal in PCE individuals. SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE: Individuals with early-life trauma and substance exposure may represent a vulnerable population, and alexithymia may play a key role in the development of emotional regulation skills in this population. (Am J Addict 2020;29:492-499).
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