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Title: | The relationship between two types of impaired emotion processing: repressive coping and alexithymia |
Authors: | Myers, L Derakshan, N |
Keywords: | Repressive coping style;Alexithymia;Interviews;Questionnaires |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | Frontiers |
Citation: | Frontiers in Psychology, 6(809): pp. 1-6, (2015) |
Abstract: | The constructs of repressive coping and alexithymia are both related to impaired emotion processing, yet individuals with a repressive coping style (repressors) score lower than controls on standard self-report measures of alexithymia. A large body of evidence indicates that repressors avoid negative affect. Therefore, the current study examined the relationship between repressive coping and alexithymia by using independently-rated interviews with the aim of bypassing repressors’ tendency of avoiding negative affect. Results showed that repressors scored high on alexithymia, similar to anxious individuals on the independently-rated interview, but scored low on alexithymia on a questionnaire measure. Our findings confirm a link between alexithymia and repressive coping and stress the need for non-standard measures in exploring the nature of the relationship between repressive coping and alexithymia. |
URI: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00809/full http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/12973 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00809 |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
Appears in Collections: | Publications |
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