Emotion response disconcordance among trauma-exposed adults: the impact of alexithymia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emotion processing deficits have been identified as a critical transdiagnostic factor that facilitates distress after trauma exposure. Limited skills in identifying and labelling emotional states (i.e. alexithymia) may present on the more automated (less conscious) end of the spectrum of emotional awareness and clarity. Individuals with alexithymia tend to exhibit a disconcordance between subjective experience and autonomic activity (e.g. where high levels of subjective emotional intensity are associated with low physiological arousal), which may exacerbate distress. Although there is a robust link between alexithymia and trauma exposure, no work to date has explored whether alexithymia is associated with emotional response disconcordance among trauma-exposed adults.

SUBMITTER: Putica A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10482720 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature