The relationship between two types of impaired emotion processing: repressive coping and alexithymia
| Autor: | Nazanin Derakshan, Lynn B. Myers |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Alexithymia
Questionnaires Repressive coping repressive coping style interviews The Rowans TAS-20 lcsh:BF1-990 Emotional processing questionnaires medicine.disease psyc Interviews lcsh:Psychology Repressive coping style medicine Psychology alexithymia Social psychology General Psychology Clinical psychology Original Research |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 6 (2015) |
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
| Popis: | The constructs of repressive coping and alexithymia are both related to impaired emotion processing, yet individuals with a repressive coping style (repressors) score lower than controls on standard self-report measures of alexithymia. A large body of evidence indicates that repressors avoid negative affect. Therefore, the current study examined the relationship between repressive coping and alexithymia by using independently-rated interviews with the aim of bypassing repressors’ tendency of avoiding negative affect. Results showed that repressors scored high on alexithymia, similar to anxious individuals on the independently-rated interview, but scored low on alexithymia on a questionnaire measure. Our findings confirm a link between alexithymia and repressive coping and stress the need for nonstandard measures in exploring the nature of the relationship between repressive coping and alexithymia. |
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