SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2024
Alexithymia as a mediator between adverse childhood events and the development of psychopathology: a meta-analysis.
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- The Role of Emotion Regulation in Trauma Processing During Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The role of alexithymia in the association between childhood maltreatment and depressive symptoms in Chinese men with methamphetamine use disorder.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Attentional Dynamics During Emotional Face Processing Differentiate Alexithymia From Mood and Affective Symptoms.Journal of personality · 2026Article
- Baseline Mentalization Predicts Depression and Alexithymia Following Brief Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Students Seeking Help at a University Clinic: A Pre-Post Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- The Dual Facets of Emotion Perception in Adult Attachment Representations: A Systematic Review on Impathy and Empathy.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- A new approach for understanding the association between chronic stress in childhood and psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia patients from mediating role of lncRNA.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Mental Contamination in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Associations With Childhood Trauma, Alexithymia, and Clinical Symptomatology.Psychiatry investigation · 2026Article
- From Self-Esteem to Symptoms: A Potential Role for Difficulties Accessing Internal States and Body-Checking Behavior in Disordered Eating Patterns.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The mediating role of alexithymia in the relationship between childhood trauma and exercise addiction.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Impact of alexithymia as a mediator in the relationship between early traumatic experiences and emotion regulation difficulties in young adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The mediating effect of alexisomia between childhood abuse and depression/stress in a sample of Lebanese adults: A cross-sectional study.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- The relationship between childhood emotional neglect and emotional eating: the chain mediating role of alexithymia and difficulties in emotion regulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Characterising alexithymia in individuals with functional motor disorders: a cross-sectional analysis of the Italian Registry of Functional Motor Disorders.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 2025Article
- Psychological functioning of patients with type I diabetes: the relevant role of alexithymia and intolerance to uncertainty.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Emotional blind spots and dark minds: how alexithymia and mindfulness shape the link between Dark Triad personality traits and psychopathology.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- From the Bio-Psycho-Social Model to the Development of a Clinical-Forensic Assessment Tool for Chronic Pain in Victims of Violence: A Research Protocol.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Impact of alexithymia, speech problems and parental emotion recognition on internalizing and externalizing problems in preschoolers.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Victims of child abuse have an elevated risk of developing mental health issues later in life. Several variables have been suggested as mediators of this correlation, but little is known about the possible influence of alexithymia. Alexithymia is a sub-clinical personality trait that manifests as difficulties recognizing and verbalizing emotions. Methods: In this study, two separate meta-analyses were conducted using questionnaire data, and Pearson correlations for overall effects were estimated. Results: The correlation between child abuse and alexithymia showed to be significant ( Discussion: These results suggest that alexithymia plays a mediating role, at least in part, in the relationship between experiences of child abuse and general psychopathology in adulthood. Therefore, alexithymia may be relevant to further research and deserves attention in the prevention of and therapy for mental health issues in victims of child abuse.
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