Alexithymia in a sample of alcohol-dependent patients: Clinical correlations and cognitive patterns
| العنوان: | Alexithymia in a sample of alcohol-dependent patients: Clinical correlations and cognitive patterns |
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| المؤلفون: | M. Panichi, R. Vecchiotti, Alessandro Valchera, Laura Orsolini, M. Marconi |
| المصدر: | European Psychiatry. 33:S321-S321 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, media_common.quotation_subject, Alcohol dependence, Anger, Emotional dysregulation, medicine.disease, Psychiatry and Mental health, Alexithymia, Rumination, medicine, Anxiety, Psychological testing, medicine.symptom, Worry, Psychiatry, Psychology, Clinical psychology, media_common |
| الوصف: | IntroductionAlexithymia represents a personality construct, characterized by an inability in identifying and verbally describing own and others’ emotions. According to the recent research on emotional dysregulation and the alexithymic construct, it has been described a positive correlation between alcoholism and alexithymia. The present study aims to evaluate the presence of alexithymia in a sample of alcohol dependant patients and, therefore, analyze how the presence of these alexithymic traits may influence/interact with a range of cognitive processes such as the anger rumination, metacognitive capabilities and dissociative experiences.MethodsA sample of 40 alcohol dependant inpatients affected with alcohol dependence and alcohol-related issues were recruited, evaluated and compared with a sample of 40 healthy controls. A clinical evaluation and a complete clinical and psychological assessment were carried out in order to investigate alcohol-related clinical patterns, alexithymia construct, anxiety and depression symptomatology and cognitive pattern.ResultsSubjects with alcohol addiction show higher total scores in all tests except the scale that evaluates anxiety, compared to healthy controls. Finally, a factorial ANOVA analysis demonstrated that alcoholism seems to be determined by the lack of emotional recognition from which derives a dissociative state, which consequently generates a depressive rumination.ConclusionsAccording to the recent literature, the present study identifies a significant proportion of alexithymic patients within the sample of subjects affected by alcohol-related disorders. Other clinical variables (i.e. depression, pathological anxiety-related worry, anger rumination, dissociation and metacognitive capabilities) mirror a specific cognitive pattern in the sample of alcoholics rather than the healthy group.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest. |
| تدمد: | 1778-3585 0924-9338 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1102 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::3fc6955923b2afb38c9c4b2cbcce2a8f https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1102 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........3fc6955923b2afb38c9c4b2cbcce2a8f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 17783585 09249338 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1102 |