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Childhood abuse, alexithymia and personality disorder
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I examined the relationships among childhood abuse, alexithymia, and personality disorder. Participants were 60 adults who were receiving outpatient psychotherapy. Both the participants and their therapists used the Toronto Alexithymia Scale to provide independently information concerning the client's level of alexithymia. The therapists provided information concerning DSM-III-R personality disorder diagnoses, and participants completed portions of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-Revised. Information concerning childhood abuse history was obtained from the therapists. As expected, childhood abuse, alexithymia, and personality disorder were all associated with each other. The abilities to identify and communicate emotions were differentially associated with childhood abuse and personality disorder.
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“increased rates of alexithymia in adulthood have been associated with a number of negative experiences in childhood, such as physical or sexual abuse, emotional neglect, and poor family expressiveness (Aust et al., 2013; Berenbaum, 1996; Kench and Irwin, 2000).”
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- Authors
- Berenbaum, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Corresponding author
- Berenbaum, Howard
- ORCID
- Berenbaum, Howard
- Venue
- Journal of Psychosomatic Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1996-12
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 585-595
- ISSN
- 0022-3999 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1972755269
- Cited by
- 193
- References
- 78
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 10
- FWCI
- 0.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Psychosomatic Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Keywords
- childhood abuse, alexithymia, personality disorders, emotion recognition, emotional communication, personality disorder diagnosis
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Affective Symptoms, Child Abuse, Communication, Cross-Sectional Studies, Emotions, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Personality Disorders, Retrospective Studies, Self-Assessment, Chi-Square Distribution
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