{
  "creator": [
    "Pandey, Rakesh",
    "Saxena, Prachi",
    "Dubey, Akanksha"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2011-11-29"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Alexithymia, characterized by difficulty in identifying and  describing feelings and a deficit in the cognitive modulation of  emotions, has been linked with health related problems. Indirect  empirical evidences suggest the possibility that alexithymia may  potentially also relate with emotion regulation difficulties. However,  the exact nature of the relationship between the two constructs has not  been fully explored. The relationship between the two constructs may  reflect the overlap of the content domains or dependence of one (e.g.,  emotion regulation difficulties) on the other (e.g., alexithymia). Given  the link between the two constructs, it is also likely that  alexithymics’ health related difficulties may result from their impaired  ability to regulate emotions. The present study tested the above  theoretical propositions on 27 alexithymic and 26 non-alexithymic  participants who were assessed on self-report measures of emotion  regulation difficulties and general mental health. The findings revealed  that compared to non-alexithymics, the alexithymics showed greater  emotion regulation difficulties and such affective difficulties  differentiated the two groups with a very high accuracy. Further, the  observation of two orthogonal components (emotion regulation  difficulties and alexithymia) with a minimum overlap suggests that these  constructs represent two independent domains of behavior. Findings also  revealed that alexithymics reported more health related problems as  compared to non-alexithymics and the health problems of alexithymics are  likely to be an outcome of their emotion regulation difficulties  (indicated by a non-significant health difference after controlling for  emotion regulation difficulties). The findings imply that alexithymia is  associated with emotion regulation difficulties and such difficulties  largely contribute to health related problems."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/155",
    "10.5964/ejop.v7i4.155"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/155/155.pdf"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Europe’s Journal of Psychology; Vol. 7 No. 4 (2011); 604-623",
    "1841-0413"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "alexithymia",
    "emotion regulation difficulties",
    "emotion regulation",
    "mental health"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Emotion regulation difficulties in alexithymia and mental health"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}