Affect labeling and other aspects of emotional experiences in relation to alexithymia following standardized emotion inductions

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 262, Issue , 2018, Pages 115-123

  Aaron, Rachel V ^a   Snodgress, Matthew A ^c   Blain, Scott D ^c   Park, Sohee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALEXITHYMIA; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE; ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AWARENESS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85041509279     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.02.014     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Bagby, R.M., Parker, J.D., Taylor, G.J., The twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale—I. Item selection and cross-validation of the factor structure. J. Psychosom. Res. 38:1 (1994), 23–32.
2. Bagozzi, R.P., Wong, N., Yi, Y., The role of culture and gender in the relationship between positive and negative affect. Cogn. Emot. 13:6 (1999), 641–672.
3. Barrett, L.F., Gross, J., Christensen, T.C., Benvenuto, M., Knowing what you're feeling and knowing what to do about it: mapping the relation between emotion differentiation and emotion regulation. Cogn. Emot. 15:6 (2001), 713–724.
4. Berkman, E.T., Lieberman, M.D., Using neuroscience to broaden emotion regulation: theoretical and methodological considerations. Social. Personal. Psychol. Compass 3:4 (2009), 475–493.
5. Brackett, M.A., Rivers, S.E., Reyes, M.R., Salovey, P., Enhancing academic performance and social and emotional competence with the RULER feeling words curriculum. Learn. Individ. Differ. 22:2 (2012), 218–224.
6. Bradley, M.M., Lang, P.J., Measuring emotion: the self-assessment manikin and the semantic differential. J. Behav. Ther. Exp. Psychiatry 25:1 (1994), 49–59.
7. Brewer, R., Cook, R., Bird, G., Alexithymia: a general deficit of interoception. R. Soc. Open Sci., 3(10), 2016, 150664.
8. Burger, A.J., Lumley, M.A., Carty, J.N., Latsch, D.V., Thakur, E.R., Hyde-Nolan, M.E., Hijazi, A.M., Schubiner, H., The effects of a novel psychological attribution and emotional awareness and expression therapy for chronic musculoskeletal pain: a preliminary, uncontrolled trial. J. Psychosom. Res., 2016, 1–8.
9. Cameron, Ogrodniczuk, J., Hadjipavlou, G., Changes in alexithymia following psychological intervention: a review. Harv. Rev. Psychiatry 22:3 (2014), 162–178.
10. Coffey, E., Berenbaum, H., Kerns, J., Brief report. Cogn. Emot. 17:4 (2003), 671–679.
11. Connelly, M., Denney, D.R., Regulation of emotions during experimental stress in alexithymia. J. Psychosom. Res. 62:6 (2007), 649–656.
12. Constantinou, E., Panayiotou, G., Theodorou, M., Emotion processing deficits in alexithymia and response to a depth of processing intervention. Biol. Psychol. 103 (2014), 212–222.
13. Davis, M.C., Zautra, A.J., Smith, B.W., Chronic pain, stress, and the dynamics of affective differentiation. J. Personal. 72:6 (2004), 1133–1160.
14. Donges, U.-S., Suslow, T., Alexithymia and automatic processing of emotional stimuli: a systematic review. Rev. Neurosci. 28:3 (2017), 247–264.
15. Eastabrook, J.M., Lanteigne, D.M., Hollenstein, T., Decoupling between physiological, self-reported, and expressed emotional responses in alexithymia. Personal. Individ. Differ. 55:8 (2013), 978–982.
16. Eichmann, M., Kugel, H., Suslow, T., Difficulty identifying feelings and automatic activation in the fusiform gyrus in response to facial emotion. Percept. Mot. Skills 107:3 (2008), 915–922.
17. Erbas, Y., Ceulemans, E., Lee Pe, M., Koval, P., Kuppens, P., Negative emotion differentiation: its personality and well-being correlates and a comparison of different assessment methods. Cogn. Emot. 28:7 (2014), 1196–1213.
18. Friedman, J., Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R., Regularization paths for generalized linear models via coordinate descent. J. Stat. Softw., 33(1), 2010, 1.
19. Ghosh, D., Vogt, A., 2012. Outliers: An Evaluation of Methodologies, Joint Statistical Meetings. American Statistical Association San Diego, CA, pp. 3455–3460.
20. Gross, J.J., Emotion regulation: current status and future prospects. Psychol. Inq. 26:1 (2015), 1–26.
21. Gross, J.J., Levenson, R.W., Emotion elicitation using films. Cogn. Emot. 9:1 (1995), 87–108.
22. Grynberg, D., Chang, B., Corneille, O., Maurage, P., Vermeulen, N., Berthoz, S., Luminet, O., Alexithymia and the processing of emotional facial expressions (EFEs): systematic review, unanswered questions and further perspectives. PLoS One, 7(8), 2012, e42429.
23. Helwig, N.E., Adding bias to reduce variance in psychological results: a tutorial on penalized regression. Tutorials Quant. Methods Psychol. 13:1 (2017), 1–19.
24. Herbert, B.M., Herbert, C., Pollatos, O., On the relationship between interoceptive awareness and alexithymia: is interoceptive awareness related to emotional awareness?. J. Personal. 79:5 (2011), 1149–1175.
25. Hock, M., Krohne, H.W., Coping with threat and memory for ambiguous information: testing the repressive discontinuity hypothesis. Emotion, 4(1), 2004, 65.
26. Kashdan, T.B., Barrett, L.F., McKnight, P.E., Unpacking emotion differentiation transforming unpleasant experience by perceiving distinctions in negativity. Curr. Dir. Psychol. Sci. 24:1 (2015), 10–16.
27. Keefer, K.V., Taylor, G.J., Parker, J.D., Bagby, R.M., Taxometric analysis of the toronto structured interview for alexithymia: further evidence that alexithymia is a dimensional construct. Assessment, 2017 (1073191117698220).
28. Kircanski, K., Lieberman, M.D., Craske, M.G., Feelings into words: contributions of language to exposure therapy. Psychol. Sci. 23:10 (2012), 1086–1091.
29. Kreibig, S.D., Gross, J.J., Understanding mixed emotions: paradigms and measures. Curr. Opin. Behav. Sci. 15 (2017), 62–71.
30. Lane, R.D., Ahern, G.L., Schwartz, G.E., Kaszniak, A.W., Is alexithymia the emotional equivalent of blindsight?. Biol. Psychiatry 42:9 (1997), 834–844.
31. Lane, R.D., Quinlan, D.M., Schwartz, G.E., Walker, P.A., Zeitlin, S.B., The levels of emotional awareness scale: a cognitive-developmental measure of emotion. J. Personal. Assess. 55:1–2 (1990), 124–134.
32. Lane, R.D., Schwartz, G.E., Levels of emotional awareness: a cognitive-developmental theory and its application to psychopathology. Am. J. Psychiatry 144:2 (1987), 133–143.
33. Lane, R.D., Sechrest, L., Riedel, R., Sociodemographic correlates of alexithymia. Compr. Psychiatry 39:6 (1998), 377–385.
34. Leising, D., Grande, T., Faber, R., The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20): a measure of general psychological distress. J. Res. Personal. 43:4 (2009), 707–710.
35. Leweke, F., Leichsenring, F., Kruse, J., Hermes, S., Is alexithymia associated with specific mental disorders. Psychopathology 45:1 (2011), 22–28.
36. Li, S., Zhang, B., Guo, Y., Zhang, J., The association between alexithymia as assessed by the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale and depression: a meta-analysis. Psychiatry Res. 227:1 (2015), 1–9.
37. Lieberman, M.D., Eisenberger, N.I., Crockett, M.J., Tom, S.M., Pfeifer, J.H., Way, B.M., Putting feelings into words. Psychol. Sci. 18:5 (2007), 421–428.
38. Lieberman, M.D., Inagaki, T.K., Tabibnia, G., Crockett, M.J., Subjective responses to emotional stimuli during labeling, reappraisal, and distraction. Emotion, 11(3), 2011, 468.
39. Lindquist, K.A., Barrett, L.F., 2008. Emotional complexity. In: Handbook of Emotions, pp. 513–530.
40. Lindquist, K.A., Satpute, A.B., Gendron, M., Does language do more than communicate emotion?. Curr. Dir. Psychol. Sci. 24:2 (2015), 99–108.
41. Linehan, M., Cognitive-behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. 1993, Guilford Press, New York.
42. Lüdtke, J., In-Albon, T., Michel, C., Schmid, M., Predictors for DSM-5 nonsuicidal self-injury in female adolescent inpatients: the role of childhood maltreatment, alexithymia, and dissociation. Psychiatry Res. 239 (2016), 346–352.
43. Lumley, M.A., Beyer, J., Radcliffe, A., 2008. Alexithymia and physical health problems: a critique of potential pathways and a research agenda. In: Emotion Regulation. Springer, pp. 43–68.
44. Lynch, T.R., Chapman, A.L., Rosenthal, M.Z., Kuo, J.R., Linehan, M.M., Mechanisms of change in dialectical behavior therapy: theoretical and empirical observations. J. Clin. Psychol. 62:4 (2006), 459–480.
45. Marchesi, C., Bertoni, S., Cantoni, A., Maggini, C., Is alexithymia a personality trait increasing the risk of depression? A prospective study evaluating alexithymia before, during and after a depressive episode. Psychol. Med. 38:12 (2008), 1717–1722.
46. Neumann, S.A., Sollers, J.J., Thayer, J.F., Waldstein, S.R., Alexithymia predicts attenuated autonomic reactivity, but prolonged recovery to anger recall in young women. Int. J. Psychophysiol. 53:3 (2004), 183–195.
47. Niles, A.N., Craske, M.G., Lieberman, M.D., Hur, C., Affect labeling enhances exposure effectiveness for public speaking anxiety. Behav. Res. Ther. 68 (2015), 27–36.
48. Nook, E.C., Lindquist, K.A., Zaki, J., A new look at emotion perception: concepts speed and shape facial emotion recognition. Emotion, 15(5), 2015, 569.
49. Ong, A.D., Bergeman, C.S., The complexity of emotions in later life. J. Gerontol. Ser. B: Psychol. Sci. Social. Sci. 59:3 (2004), P117–P122.
50. Panayiotou, G., Leonidou, C., Constantinou, E., Hart, J., Rinehart, K.L., Sy, J.T., Björgvinsson, T., Do alexithymic individuals avoid their feelings? Experiential avoidance mediates the association between alexithymia, psychosomatic, and depressive symptoms in a community and a clinical sample. Compr. Psychiatry 56 (2015), 206–216.
51. Panos, P.T., Jackson, J.W., Hasan, O., Panos, A., 2013. Meta-analysis and systematic review assessing the efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). In: Research on Social Work Practice, 1049731513503047.
52. Peasley-Miklus, C.E., Panayiotou, G., Vrana, S.R., Alexithymia predicts arousal-based processing deficits and discordance between emotion response systems during emotional imagery. Emotion, 16(2), 2016, 164.
53. Reich, J.W., Zautra, A.J., Davis, M., Dimensions of affect relationships: models and their integrative implications. Rev. Gen. Psychol., 7(1), 2003, 66.
54. Reker, M., Ohrmann, P., Rauch, A.V., Kugel, H., Bauer, J., Dannlowski, U., Arolt, V., Heindel, W., Suslow, T., Individual differences in alexithymia and brain response to masked emotion faces. Cortex 46:5 (2010), 658–667.
55. Roedema, T.M., Simons, R.F., Emotion-processing deficit in alexithymia. Psychophysiology 36:3 (1999), 379–387.
56. Saarijärvi, S., Salminen, J., Toikka, T., Temporal stability of alexithymia over a five-year period in outpatients with major depression. Psychother. Psychosom. 75:2 (2006), 107–112.
57. Samson, A.C., Kreibig, S.D., Soderstrom, B., Wade, A.A., Gross, J.J., Eliciting positive, negative and mixed emotional states: A film library for affective scientists. Cogn. Emot. 30:5 (2016), 827–856.
58. Stone, L.A., Nielson, K.A., Intact physiological response to arousal with impaired emotional recognition in alexithymia. Psychother. Psychosom. 70:2 (2001), 92–102.
59. Swart, M., Kortekaas, R., Aleman, A., Dealing with feelings: characterization of trait alexithymia on emotion regulation strategies and cognitive-emotional processing. PLoS One, 4(6), 2009, e5751.
60. Thorberg, F.A., Young, R.M., Sullivan, K.A., Lyvers, M., Alexithymia and alcohol use disorders: a critical review. Addict. Behav. 34:3 (2009), 237–245.
61. Tugade, M.M., Fredrickson, B.L., Feldman Barrett, L., Psychological resilience and positive emotional granularity: examining the benefits of positive emotions on coping and health. J. Personal. 72:6 (2004), 1161–1190.
62. Waller, E., Scheidt, C.E., Somatoform disorders as disorders of affect regulation: a study comparing the TAS-20 with non-self-report measures of alexithymia. J. Psychosom. Res. 57:3 (2004), 239–247.
63. Watson, D., Clark, L.A., Tellegen, A., Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: the PANAS scales. J. Personal. Social Psychol., 54(6), 1988, 1063.
64. Westwood, H., Kerr-Gaffney, J., Stahl, D., Tchanturia, K., Alexithymia in eating disorders: systematic review and meta-analyses of studies using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale. J. Psychosom. Res. 99 (2017), 66–81.
65. Wiebe, A., Kersting, A., Suslow, T., Deployment of attention to emotional pictures varies as a function of externally-oriented thinking: an eye tracking investigation. J. Behav. Ther. Exp. Psychiatry 55 (2017), 1–5.
66. Wotschack, C., Klann-Delius, G., Alexithymia and the conceptualization of emotions: a study of language use and semantic knowledge. J. Res. Personal. 47:5 (2013), 514–523.
67. Zou, H., Hastie, T., Regularization and variable selection via the elastic net. J. R. Stat. Soc.: Ser. B (Stat. Methodol.) 67:2 (2005), 301–320.