A multimodal investigation of emotional responding in alexithymia

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作者
Luminet, O
Rimé, B
Bagby, RM
Taylor, GJ
机构
[1] Univ Catholique Louvain, Dept Psychol, Res Unit Emot Cognit & Hlth, B-1348 Louvain, Belgium
[2] Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
[3] Ctr Addict & Mental Hlth, Toronto, ON, Canada
[4] Mt Sinai Hosp, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada
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10.1080/02699930341000275
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B84 [心理学];
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04 [教育学]; 0402 [心理学];
摘要
The personality construct of alexithymia is thought to reflect a deficit in the cognitive processing and regulation of emotional states. To explore the relations between alexithymia and emotional responding, 50 older adults (28 men, 22 women) were studied across different contexts: (1) initial exposure to an emotion-evoking movie; (2) second exposure to that stimulus; (3) reports of rumination and social sharing; and (4) describing their emotional response (verbal re-evocation). Facets of the alexithymia construct were associated at the initial exposure with lower emotional responses at the cognitive-experiential level, but with higher emotional responses at the physiological level as measured by heart rate. At the second exposure, the results were replicated for physiological responses. Certain facets of alexithymia were associated also with lower reports of rumination and social sharing involving emotional aspects, and with a lower proportion of emotional words related to the emotional stimulus during the verbal re-evocation.
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