ArticleEuropean archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience2022
A network analysis of interoception, self-awareness, empathy, alexithymia, and autistic traits.
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- Interoception in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
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- Exploring autism spectrum profiles via network analysis of parent-reported ASSQ patterns.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Neural Heterogeneity Underlying Behavioral Equivalence: A Dynamic Neuro-Decoding Study of Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Relation to Autism-Like Traits.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Autistic Adult Online Interoception Feasibility Pilot Program.Occupational therapy international · 2026Article
- The mediating effect of trauma and loss spectrum on the relationship between autistic traits and eating disorder symptoms among patients with borderline personality disorder.CNS spectrums · 2025Article
- Psychometric network analysis reveals how sensory processing relates to self-reflection traits in adolescence.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Understanding the relationships among adolescents' internet dependence, reward, cognitive control processing, and learning burnout: a network perspective in China.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Dissociating cognitive and affective empathy across psychopathy dimensions: The role of interoception and alexithymia.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Sensory Modulation in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder Compared to Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typically Developing Children.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Autism and other disorders of social interaction: where we are and where to go from here.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Altered interoception has been consistently found in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and this impairment may contribute to social cognitive dysfunctions. However, little is known regarding the intercorrelations between interoceptive sensibility, autistic, alexithymic, empathic, and self-related traits. We recruited 1360 non-clinical college students and adults to investigate the complex inter-relationship between these variables using network analysis. The resultant network revealed patterns connecting autistic traits to interoceptive sensibility, empathy, alexithymia, and self-awareness, with reasonable stability and test-retest consistency. The node of alexithymia exhibited the highest centrality and expected influence. As revealed by the network comparison test, networks constructed in high- and low-autistic subgroups were comparable in global strength and structure. Our findings suggested that alexithymia serves as an important node, bridging interoceptive deficits, self-awareness, and empathic impairments of autism spectrum disorder. The co-morbidity of alexithymia should be considered carefully in future studies of interoceptive impairments and social deficits in ASD.
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