Illuminating the clinical significance of alexithymia subtypes: A cluster analysis of alexithymic traits and psychiatric symptoms.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2017.04.010
Abstract: BACKGROUND Alexithymia is a personality construct involving difficulties identifying and verbalizing feelings, and an externally oriented thinking style. There is preliminary evidence for alexithymia subtypes that may carry different risk profiles for psychiatric illness. The… read more here.
Keywords: cluster analysis; subtypes cluster; alexithymia subtypes; alexithymia ... See more keywords
An evaluation of alexithymia subtypes using latent profile analysis
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DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113840
Abstract: Four subtypes of the alexithymia construct have been proposed based on different response patterns to the Cognitive and Affective dimensions of the Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire (BVAQ). Previous studies investigating whether alexithymia subtypes can be statistically… read more here.
Keywords: using latent; alexithymia subtypes; alexithymia; profile analysis ... See more keywords