ArticleAutism : the international journal of research and practice2023
Relationships between alexithymia, interoception, and emotional empathy in autism spectrum disorder.
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- Interoception in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Research Review: Emotion regulation in individuals with intellectual disability - an integrative review.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Review
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- Improving Social Communication in Autistic Adolescents Through a Clinic-Home-School Collaboration.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Differential roles of alexithymia components in linking autistic traits to personal distress and empathy concern.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Brief Report-Written Personal Narratives of Autistic and Non-autistic Women: A Linguistic Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Depression May Not Be Related to Impaired Interoceptive Sensibility: The Role of Alexithymia.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- 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
- Interoception and its application to paediatric occupational therapy: A scoping review.Australian occupational therapy journal · 2025Article
- Motor Signature Differences Between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Coordination Disorder, and Their Neural Mechanisms.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- A network analysis of alexithymia, empathy, and suicidal ideation in Chinese adolescents with major depressive disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Individual differences in interoception and autistic traits share altered facial emotion perception, but not recognition per se.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Influence of Affective Empathy on Online News Belief: The Moderated Mediation of State Empathy and News Type.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Caregiver and youth inter-rater assessment agreement in autism spectrum disorder, developmental coordination disorder, and typical development.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Interoception in Autism: A Narrative Review of Behavioral and Neurobiological Data.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Review
- Disgust Processing and Potential Relationships with Behaviors in Autism.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
- Connectivity differences between inferior frontal gyrus and mentalizing network in autism as compared to developmental coordination disorder and non-autistic youth.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2023Article
- Relationships between Affect Recognition, Empathy, Alexithymia, and Co-Occurring Conditions in Autism.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- The relationship between alexithymia, interoception, and neural functional connectivity during facial expression processing in autism spectrum disorder.Neuropsychologia · 2023Article
- Sensory Modulation in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder Compared to Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typically Developing Children.Brain sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
lay abstractEmpathy, the ability to understand and share the emotions of others, is a necessary skill for social functioning and can be categorized into cognitive and emotional empathy. There is evidence to suggest that individuals with autism spectrum disorder have difficulties with cognitive empathy, the ability to imagine how another person is thinking or feeling. However, it is unclear if individuals with autism spectrum disorder struggle with emotional empathy, the ability to share and feel emotions others are experiencing. Self-report and interview data were collected to explore the relationships between interoception (individuals' self-reported awareness of sensation from their body such as thirst, heartbeat, etc.), alexithymia (an individual's ability to describe and distinguish between their own emotions), and emotional empathy in 35 youth with autism spectrum disorder and 40 typically developing youth. Greater personal distress to others' emotions and greater difficulty describing and recognizing self-emotions were associated with reporting fewer physical sensations in the body when experiencing emotion in the autism spectrum disorder group. The results of this study suggest that while autism spectrum disorder youth with concomitant alexithymia may experience emotional empathy differently, it should not be characterized as an absence of a capacity for emotional empathy.
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