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Somatoform disorders as disorders of affect regulation
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Objective To determine the role of undifferentiated and dysregulated affects in somatoform disorders by using a multimethod assessment approach of alexithymia. Methods Forty patients with ICD-10 somatoform disorders (SoD) and 20 healthy controls, matched for age, education and sex, were included in the study. Alexithymia was assessed using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), the Affect Consciousness Interview (ACI), and the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS). All classifications were made blinded with regard to clinical status. Results Scores of the ACI and the TAS-20 showed that alexithymia is higher in SoD than in healthy controls. No differences were found on the LEAS. In terms of the multidimensionality of the alexithymia construct, our results indicate a specific positive association between SoD and a proneness to experience undifferentiated affects. The three subfactors of the TAS-20 were differentially related to non-self-report measures of alexithymia and to negative affectivity (NA). Only the cognitive facet of the TAS-20 (externally oriented thinking [EOT]) was related to the LEAS and the ACI. In contrast, the affective facets of the TAS-20-difficulties identifying feelings (DIF) and difficulties describing feelings (DDF)-were substantially related to NA. Conclusion The findings highlight the important role of impaired affect regulation and NA in the process of somatization.
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“This increase in emotion regulation is crucial in patients with somatic complaints as a lack of emotional awareness and an overuse of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies are considered basic psychological liabilities of Somatic Symptom Disorder (Waller and Scheidt, 2004; Garnefski et al., 2017; Okur Güney et al., 2019).”
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- Authors
- Waller, E., & Scheidt, C. E.
- Affiliations
- University Medical Center Freiburg (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Waller, Elisabeth
- Venue
- Journal of Psychosomatic Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2004-09
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 239-247
- ISSN
- 0022-3999 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1764258630
- Cited by
- 193
- References
- 58
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- FWCI
- 2.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Psychosomatic Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Keywords
- somatoform disorders, alexithymia, emotion regulation, negative affectivity, somatization, Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale, externally oriented thinking
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Affect, Affective Symptoms, Awareness, Female, Humans, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Somatoform Disorders, Self Efficacy
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