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ATTENTION - EMOTIONS - ALEXYTHYMIA

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Maruszewski T.
Psychological Studies
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2004
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vol. 42
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issue 1
79-92
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The paper is aimed at finding relations between selective function of attention and alexithymia. We also tried to answer the question if attentional selection varies in different emotional states. Selective attention was studied with own modification of Moron test. The test consists in a matrix containing 400 schematic expressions of various emotions and SS are asked to find and mark faces with expression of particular emotion within 2 minutes. Study 1 was carried out on 198 subjects with different levels of alexithymia (abstinent alcoholics, medical faculty students, people working in various institutions matched to alcoholics). Main effects of group and kind of emotion were found for all indices registered in Moron test. Abstinent alcoholics got the worst results in Moron test, whereas medical faculty students got the best results. Attentional selection was better in case of expressions of anger and sadness than in case of joy. Study 2 was carried out on group of students (N = 148). Three versions of Moron test were used: subjects were instructed to find and mark expressions of sadness, joy and anger. Two versions of instruction were introduced. First one required to find and mark the same faces as were shown to the subjects. In the second one a name of emotion was given as well as schematic face displaying this emotion. Main effect of the level of alexithymia was not found. The best results were obtained both for sadness and anger and the worst - for joy. Second version of instruction giving both name of emotion and facial expression of that emotion lead to worse results comparing to version in which only pictures of expression were given. None of interactions in study 1 and 2 was significant. Implications of these results for both theory of selective attention and theory of alexithymia are analyzed.
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RELIABILITY AND FACTOR VALIDITY OF THE HUNGARIAN TRANSLATION OF THE TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE IN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT SAMPLES

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Cserjesi R., Luminet O., Lenard L.
Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
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2007
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vol. 62
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issue 3
355-368
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Alexithymia is the term to describe a constellation of difficulties to identifying feelings, distinguishing between bodily sensations of emotional arousal and describing feelings to others. This construct was examined by assessing the reliability of the factors of the 20-item Toronto Scale (TAS-20). After receiving official approval on the back translation, the Hungarian version of TAS-20 was administered to 275 undergraduate students (172 women and 103 men) of the University of Pécs. In line with the translation of TAS-20 in different languages and cultures, the authors results revealed also good internal reliability for the first two subscales, Difficulty identifying emotion and Difficulty describing emotion. Like in most of non-English mother tongue cultures, the third subscale, Externally oriented thinking lacks strong internal reliability. The exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis proved the validity of the original three factor model on the Hungarian translation. The authors findings suggest that TAS-20 can be a useful tool to assess alexithymia in the Hungarian population and further examinations should be done in order to introduce it in the clinical practice.
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DISCRIMINATION OF MIMIC EXPRESSION AND NAME OF EMOTION BY ALEXITHYMICS

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Wawrzyniak M.
Psychological Studies
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2007
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vol. 45
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issue 1
43-52
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The aim of the study was to undertake an attempt of identifying the role of certain selected conditions in discriminating emotions by alexithymics. It was assumed that presence in the field of vision, time of exposition, as well as sequential and parallel presentation affected the accuracy of emotion discrimination. The study makes use of the FOTOS KODY experiment, which examines the discrimination of emotions encoded in the pictorial code (mimic expression) and the verbal code (name of emotion), as well as of the ALEX 40 test, which serves to establish the grade of alexithymia. Non-alexithymics proved more accurate in discriminating between mimic expression and name of emotion in all conditions of FOTOD KODY, which also shows their increased ability to switch between the pictorial and verbal codes for emotions. The results indicate that a long time of exposition, the right field of vision (in case of long exposition - 2000 ms) and the left field of vision (in case of short exposition - 500 ms), as well as sequential presentation of stimuli increase the accuracy of discrimination of emotions.
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RECOGNITION OF EMOTIONAL FACIAL EXPRESSIONS IN ALEXITHYMIA

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Martinez-Sanchez F., Fernández-Abascal E. G., Sánchez-Pérez N.
Studia Psychologica
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2017
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vol. 59
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issue 3
206 – 216
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Alexithymia is a personality trait which is associated with difficulties in identifying and verbalizing emotions. Previous studies have shown a significant association between alexithymia and a lack of ability to decode emotional facial expressions. Three groups of university students (N = 1645) were formed by splitting the sample based on Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) scores. All participants performed an emotional expression recognition task, using the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes’’ method. The experimenter presented images of the eye-region of the faces of actors and actresses. As expected, results showed that alexithymics performed worse on ability to infer others’ emotional states expressed by the eyes. These results suggest that alexithymia is associated with impaired emotion recognition, that is most apparent when processing capacity is restricted, high-alexithymic individuals could develop less detailed perceptual representations of facial expression which might impair the process of drawing conclusions about its emotional significance.
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