| Autor: |
Ka Shu Lee, Jennifer Murphy, Caroline Catmur, Geoffrey Bird, Hannah Hobson |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
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Lee, K S, Murphy, J, Catmur, C, Bird, G & Hobson, H 2022, ' Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia : An integrated review and meta-analysis ', Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, vol. 141, 104864 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104864 |
| ISSN: |
1873-7528 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104864 |
| Popis: |
Alexithymia, including the inability to identify and express one's own feelings, is a subclinical condition responsible for some of the socioemotional symptoms seen across a range of psychiatric conditions. The language hypothesis of alexithymia posits a language-mediated disruption in the development of discrete emotion concepts from ambiguous affective states, exacerbating the risk of developing alexithymia in language-impaired individuals. To provide a critical evaluation, a systematic review and meta-analysis of 29 empirical studies of language functioning in alexithymia was performed. A modest association was found between alexithymia and multi-domain language deficits (r = −0.14), including structural language, pragmatics, and propensity to use emotional language. A more theoretically-relevant subsample analysis comparing alexithymia levels in language-impaired and typical individuals revealed larger effects, but a limited number of studies adopted this approach. A synthesis of 11 emotional granularity studies also found an association between alexithymia and reduced emotional granularity (r = −0.10). Language impairments seem to increase the risk of alexithymia. Heterogeneous samples and methods suggest the need for studies with improved alexithymia assessments. |
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OpenAIRE |
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