Increased Alexithymia But No Profound Emotion Processing Disorder in Burnout Syndrome
| Autor: | Magdalena Augustin, Joachim Haas, Volker Busch, Peter Eichhammer, Stephan Schiekofer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male media_common.quotation_subject Anxiety Burnout Psychological Burnout Affect (psychology) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Mentalization Alexithymia medicine Humans Affective Symptoms Psychological abuse media_common Depressive Disorder Depression Middle Aged medicine.disease 030227 psychiatry Developmental disorder Psychiatry and Mental health Feeling Case-Control Studies Female medicine.symptom Psychology Facial Recognition psychological phenomena and processes 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease. 208:794-802 |
| ISSN: | 1539-736X 0022-3018 |
| Popis: | Our objectives were to investigate alexithymia in burnout patients while controlling for depression and anxiety, as well as to evaluate whether alexithymia may be part of a profound emotional processing disorder or of a mentalization deficit. Alexithymia, depressive, and anxious feelings were compared in patients with burnout, depression, and healthy controls using an age-, sex-, and education-matched cross-sectional design (n = 60). A facial emotion recognition task and an emotional mentalizing performance test as well as physical and emotional violation experiences were conducted. Alexithymia was significantly increased in burnout patients, mediated by negative affect in this group. No impairment of facial emotion recognition or mental attribution could be shown. Burnout patients demonstrated slightly increased emotional abuse experiences in early childhood. The present results corroborate the supposition that alexithymia in burnout primarily depends on affect and may rise due to current strain and overload experience, rather than based on a profound developmental disorder in emotion processing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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