The role of alexithymia and autistic traits in predicting quality of life in an online sample
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In this article, the authors explored the role of alexithymia in the relationship between depression and quality of life (QOL) and found that depression is a pervasive negative predictor of multiple QOL domains.About:
This article is published in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders.The article was published on 2022-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Alexithymia & Alexithymia.read more
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Adolescence internalizing problems as a mediator between autism diagnosis in childhood and quality of life in emerging adults with and without autism: a 10-year longitudinal study
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors looked at the role of adolescence internalizing and externalizing problems in mediating the relationship between having an autism diagnosis from childhood and perceived quality of life as emerging adults.
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Discrimination and victimization as mediators between social support and psychological distress in autistic adults
Nuria Jeanneret,Isabelle Courcy,Vicki Caron,Mathieu Giroux,Lucila Guerrero,Mélanie Ouimet,Baudouin Forgeot d’Arc,Isabelle Soulières +7 more
TL;DR: In this article , a cross-sectional online survey was conducted to provide information on psychological distress (Kessler K6), characteristics of personal social support network, utilization and access to social and professional support, diagnosis and health conditions, and socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents.
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Internalizing Problems as a Mediator for Quality of Life in Emerging Adults with and without Autism. A 10- year longitudinal study
TL;DR: In this article , the mediating role of internalizing and externalizing problems on the relationship between having an autism diagnosis and perceived quality of life in a longitudinal design was examined, and the results revealed a significant effect of autism on quality of living.
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Improving the measurement of alexithymia in autistic adults: a psychometric investigation of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale and generation of a general alexithymia factor score using item response theory.
TL;DR: Williams et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted an in-depth psychometric analysis of the TAS-20 in a large sample of 743 cognitively able autistic adults recruited from the Simons Foundation SPARK participant pool and 721 general population controls enrolled in large international psychological study.
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Let’s Be Clear That “Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms” Are Not Always Related to Autism Spectrum Disorder
Catherine Lord,Somer L. Bishop +1 more
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Memory for emotional information and alexithymia A systematic review
TL;DR: The notion that the typical increase in episodic memory for emotional information is reduced in high-alexithymia individuals is supported.
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Alexithymia Is Linked with a Negative Bias for Past and Current Events in Healthy Humans.
Silvia Barchetta,Gabriella Martino,Giuseppe Craparo,Mohammad Ali Salehinejad,Michael A. Nitsche,Carmelo M. Vicario +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship between difficulties of identifying and describing feelings and emotions (alexithymia) and time perspective and found that difficulties in identifying and expressing emotions are associated with a negative bias for past and present events, and the higher the TAS-20 score, the tendency was to focus on negative aspects of the past and interpret the present fatalistically.