ReviewAnnual review of psychology2025
Alexithymia: Toward an Experimental, Processual Affective Science with Effective Interventions.
Review in Annual review of psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
33 citing papers in PubMed.
- Temporal pathways between alexithymia, psychological distress, and pain: An autoregressive mediation analysis.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2026Article
- The Role of Emotion Regulation in Trauma Processing During Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Attentional Dynamics During Emotional Face Processing Differentiate Alexithymia From Mood and Affective Symptoms.Journal of personality · 2026Article
- Translational pathways of oxytocin therapy in schizophrenia: bridging negative symptom domains and neural mechanisms.Translational psychiatry · 2026Review
- Prevalence of alexithymia and its association with social media addiction among medical students in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Alexithymia, self-reported external gain expectations, and overreporting on symptom validity tests in hospital patients: further evidence for the relevance of alexithymia.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2026Article
- Relationship of Susceptibility to Emotional Contagion with Automatic Emotion Processing and Emotional Competences.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The role of interoception in alexithymia: a multidimensional analysis.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Alexithymia and self-harm in depressed adolescents: the mediating role of resting-state functional connectivity of the ventral hippocampal-fusiform gyrus.Annals of general psychiatry · 2026Article
- Alexithymia and Psychological Profile in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Clinical and Immunological Correlates.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Alexithymia and Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Mediation Roles of Self-Compassion and Deficits in Emotion Regulation.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- The relationship between alexithymia, emotion regulation, psychological resilience, and self-management behaviors in kidney transplant recipients: a multicenter structural equation modeling study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The mediating role of alexithymia in the relationship between childhood trauma and exercise addiction.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- From attachment anxiety to short video addiction: the roles of attentional control and alexithymia.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Article
- Internet addiction and psychological inflexibility in young adults: a parallel mediation analysis of alexithymia facets within an I-PACE framework.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Alexithymia: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Machine Learning-Based Alexithymia Assessment Using Resting-State Default Mode Network Functional Connectivity.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The High-Risk Model of Threat Perception Modulates Learning of Placebo and Nocebo Effects and Functional Somatic Disorders.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- How Alexithymia Increases Mental Health Symptoms in Adolescence: Longitudinal Evidence for the Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation.Affective science · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Alexithymia is a multi-dimensional personality trait involving difficulty identifying feelings, difficulty describing feelings, and an externally oriented thinking style. Poor fantasy life is debated as another facet. For over 50 years, the alexithymia literature has examined how alexithymia-related disturbances in perceiving and expressing feelings contribute to mental and physical disorders. We review the current understanding of alexithymia-including its definition, etiology, measurement, and vulnerabilities for both mental and physical illness-and its treatment. We emphasize the importance of further experimental and processual affective science research that (
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.