ArticleBrain sciences2020
Alexithymia Profile in Relation to Negative Affect in Parents of Autistic and Typically Developing Young Children.
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- Broader autism phenotype, the default mode network, and brain entropy: A network-level hypothesis.Research in neurodiversity · 2026Article
- Associations Between Parental Alexithymia and Family Dynamics in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The mediating role of perceived social support: alexithymia and parental burnout in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Can alexithymia be assessed through an interview in adolescents? The Toronto Structured Interview for Alexithymia: Reliability, concurrent validity, discriminant validity, and relationships with emotional-behavioral symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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- Improving the measurement of alexithymia in autistic adults: a psychometric investigation and refinement of the twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale.Molecular autism · 2021Article
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- The Challenging Heterogeneity of Autism: Editorial for Brain Sciences Special Issue "Advances in Autism Research".Brain sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
In our study, we explored the construct of alexithymia in parents of children with and without ASD using a multi-method approach based on self-rated and external rater assessment. We also assessed the level of self-report measures of negative affect states such as trait anxiety and depression, and investigated the correlation between the alexithymia construct, trait anxiety, and depression within the broader autism phenotype (BAP). A total sample of 100 parents (25 mothers and 25 fathers in each group) were administered the TAS-20 and the TSIA to measure self-reported and observer-rated alexithymia traits, as well as self-report measures of anxiety and depression. Study results showed that the TSIA but not the TAS-20 was able to detect significant group differences in alexithymia traits among parents of children with and without ASD, with parents of ASD children displaying significantly higher levels of alexithymia. Furthermore, differently from the TAS-20, no significant correlations between the TSIA and measures of anxiety and depression were detected. Taken together, our results suggest the importance of using multi-method approaches to control for potential measurement bias and to detect psychological constructs such as alexithymia in subclinical samples such as parents of children with ASD.
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