ArticlePloS one2021
Relationship between interoceptive sensibility and somatoform disorders in adults with autism spectrum traits. The mediating role of alexithymia and emotional dysregulation.
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- Interoception in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- A non-systematic overview review of self-focused emotion regulation in autistic individuals through the lens of the extended process model.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Review
- Functional Neurological Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Complex and Potentially Significant Relationship.Brain and behavior · 2024Review
- Autistic Traits and Somatic Symptom Disorders: What Is the Link?Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Addressing psychosomatic symptom distress with mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in somatic symptom disorder: mediating effects of self-compassion and alexithymia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- The relationship between alexithymia, interoception, and neural functional connectivity during facial expression processing in autism spectrum disorder.Neuropsychologia · 2023Article
- Emotional dysregulation as a part of the autism spectrum continuum: a literature review from late childhood to adulthood.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- A multidimensional investigation of the relationship between skin-mediated somatosensory signals, emotion regulation and behavior problems in autistic children.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- The role of interoception in the overlap between eating disorders and autism: Methodological considerations.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2022Article
- Clinical Evidence for Increased Dissociative Experiences in Adults with High Levels of Autistic Traits: A Comparative Study.Journal of trauma & dissociation : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD)Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe purpose of the study is to analyses the relationship between interoceptive sensibility and somatoform disorders among persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It has been assumed that the interoceptive sensibility is accompanied by a high level of alexithymia and emotion dysregulation in somatoform disorders.
methodsPersons under the care of the foundation helping people with ASD were asked to participate in the study. In total, 205 people took part in the research. The participants aged from 18 to 63 (M = 34.91; SD = 8.44). The ASD group comprised 79 persons (38.5% of subjects). The control group comprised 126 individuals (61.5% of subjects). Participants completed self-report questionnaires measuring autism (AQ), interoceptive sensibility (BPQ), alexithymia (TAS20), emotional dysregulation (DERS), and somatoform disorder (SDQ).
resultsThe analyses showed a moderation effect of the group, which indicates the existence of a relationship between interoceptive sensibility and somatoform disorders to the greater extent in the clinical group than in the control group. In addition, the serial multiple mediation model analysis allowed to verify the mediating effect of emotion dysregulation and alexithymia on the abovementioned relationship. The indirect effect, which assumed the mediating role of alexithymia turned out to be significant, contrary to the indirect effect where emotion dysregulation was a mediator in a situation where both variables were applied simultaneously.
conclusionsInteroceptive sensibility correlated with level of alexithymia, in particular, difficulties in identifying and verbalizing emotions and emotion dysregulation in the lack of emotional awareness and lack of emotional clarity and is associated with somatoform disorders in the investigated group regardless of participants' belonging to the ASD or control group.
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