ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2022
Are Autistic and Alexithymic Traits Distinct? A Factor-Analytic and Network Approach.
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- Individual differences in emotion prediction and implications for social success.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
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- Pioneering, prodigious and perspicacious: Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva's life and contribution to conceptualising autism and schizophrenia.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 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
- An exploration of the impact of contextual information on the emotion recognition ability of autistic adults.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2022Article
- Distinct neurocognitive bases for social trait judgments of faces in autism spectrum disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
Despite the heterogeneity in autism, socioemotional difficulties are often framed as universal. Increasing evidence, however, suggests that socioemotional difficulties may be explained by alexithymia, a distinct yet frequently co-occurring condition. If, as some propose, autistic traits are responsible for socioemotional impairments, then alexithymia may itself be a symptom of autism. We aimed to determine whether alexithymia should be considered a product of autism or regarded as a separate condition. Using factor-analytic and network approaches, we provide evidence that alexithymic and autistic traits are distinct. We argue that: (1) models of socioemotional processing in autism should conceptualise difficulties as intrinsic to alexithymia; and (2) assessment of alexithymia is crucial for diagnosis and personalised interventions.
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