Dissociation Between Affective and Cognitive Empathy in Alcoholism: A Specific Deficit for the Emotional Dimension: EMOTIONAL EMPATHY DEFICIT IN ALCOHOLISM
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Background Emotional impairments constitute a crucial and widely described dimension of alcoholism, but several affective abilities are still to be thoroughly explored among alcohol-dependent patients. This is particularly true for empathy, which constitutes an essential emotional competence for interpersonal relations and has been shown to be highly impaired in various psychiatric states. The present study aimed at exploring empathic abilities in alcoholism, and notably the hypothesis of a differential deficit between emotional and cognitive empathy. Methods Empathy abilities were evaluated among 30 recently detoxified inpatients diagnosed with alcohol dependence and 30 paired healthy controls, using highly validated questionnaires (Interpersonal Reactivity Index [J Pers Soc Psychol44:113] and Empathy Quotient [J Autism Dev Disord34:163]). Correlational analyses were performed to evaluate the links between empathy scores and psychopathological measures (i.e., depression, anxiety, interpersonal problems, and alexithymia). Results When psychiatric comorbities are controlled for, alcoholism is not associated with a general empathy deficit, but rather with a dissociated pattern combining impaired emotional empathy and preserved cognitive one. Moreover, this emotional empathy deficit is not associated with depression or anxiety scores, but is negatively correlated with alexithymia and the severity of interpersonal problems. Conclusions At the theoretical level, this first observa…
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Empathic impairments and emotion regulation difficulties appear to be predicted by alexithymia in those with alcohol addictions.
“and empathic impairments (Maurage et al., 2011) and emotion regulation difficulties (Stasiewicz et al., 2012) appear to be predicted by alexithymia in those with alcohol addictions.”
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- Authors
- Maurage, P., Grynberg, D., Noël, X., Joassin, F., Philippot, P., Hanak, C., Verbanck, P., Luminet, O., de Timary, P., & Campanella, S.
- Affiliations
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brugmann (BE)
- Corresponding author
- Maurage, Pierre
- ORCID
- Venue
- Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2011-05
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- no-no
- ISSN
- 0145-6008 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1906582041
- Cited by
- 155
- References
- 7
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- FWCI
- 6.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- Locations
- Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Digital Access to Libraries (submittedVersion)
- Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Empathy and Medical Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Keywords
- alcoholism, affective empathy, cognitive empathy, double dissociation, alexithymia, interpersonal problems, depression, anxiety, Interpersonal Reactivity Index, Empathy Quotient, emotional impairment
- MeSH terms
- Affect, Affective Symptoms, Alcoholism, Anxiety Disorders, Benzodiazepines, Cognition Disorders, Depression, Emotions, Empathy, Female, Humans, Male, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Surveys and Questionnaires, Comorbidity
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