ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2022
Alexithymic But Not Autistic Traits Impair Prosocial Behavior.
Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Alexithymia and self-injury functions as mediators between childhood maltreatment and nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents with major depressive disorder.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- School bullying and non-suicidal self-injury among rural adolescents: the mediating role of alexithymia and the moderating role of friendship quality.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Roles of empathy in altruistic cooperation in adults with and without autism spectrum disorder.Heliyon · 2024Article
- The effects of student bullying on non-suicidal self-injurious behavior in rural adolescents: the chain-mediated effects of alexithymia and ruminate thinking.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Social impairments are a core feature of autism-spectrum disorders. However, there is a considerable variability in these impairments. Most autistic individuals show large impairments in social functioning but some autistic individuals show small impairments in social functioning. The variability of these impairments has been attributed to the presence or absence of alexithymia. To address this issue, we capitalized on the fact that alexithymic and autistic traits are broadly distributed in the population. This allowed us to investigate how alexithymic and autistic traits affect social functioning in healthy individuals. Healthy individuals showed impairments on a resource-allocation task that were due to alexithymic but not autistic traits. These findings suggest that alexithymic rather than autistic traits impair prosocial behavior across the autism-spectrum.
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