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Alexithymia and Interoceptive Confusion in Covid-19 Pandemic Distress

OBJECTIVE: Alexithymic traits are associated with the difficulty of perceiving 'non-affective interoceptive signals', and are related to a problematic management of stressful life events (SLEs). The main purpose of this study was to quantify the psychological response of the general popula...

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Autores principales: Miniati, Mario, Poidomani, Chiara, Conversano, Ciro, Orrù, Graziella, Ciacchini, Rebecca, Marazziti, Donatella, Perugi, Giulio, Gemignani, Angelo, Palagini, Laura
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10544239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37791080
http://dx.doi.org/10.36131/cnfioritieditore20230405
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author Miniati, Mario
Poidomani, Chiara
Conversano, Ciro
Orrù, Graziella
Ciacchini, Rebecca
Marazziti, Donatella
Perugi, Giulio
Gemignani, Angelo
Palagini, Laura
author_facet Miniati, Mario
Poidomani, Chiara
Conversano, Ciro
Orrù, Graziella
Ciacchini, Rebecca
Marazziti, Donatella
Perugi, Giulio
Gemignani, Angelo
Palagini, Laura
author_sort Miniati, Mario
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description OBJECTIVE: Alexithymic traits are associated with the difficulty of perceiving 'non-affective interoceptive signals', and are related to a problematic management of stressful life events (SLEs). The main purpose of this study was to quantify the psychological response of the general population to COVID-19 pandemic stress and to evaluate potential correlations with the presence of 'alexithymic traits' and 'interoceptive confusion' (study protocol # 0077794/2022). METHOD: 175 subjects from general population were assessed with the Toronto-Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), the Event-Revised Impact Scale (IES-R), the Interoceptive Accuracy Scale (IAS), and the Interoceptive Confusion Questionnaire (ICQ). RESULTS: a significant relationship emerged between alexithymic traits (assessed with the TAS-20), the ICQ ‘interoceptive confusion’, and the domain of ‘hyper-arousal’ as assessed with IES-R. Logistic regression model showed that ICQ-Total Score and IES-R ‘hyper-arousal’ domain were significantly correlated with TAS-20 total score, with DR value (R2 corrected) explaining the 36.8% of the variability (standard error: 10.7). CONCLUSIONS: This study, albeit with the limitations of a cross-sectional experimental design with self-evaluation tools in a general population sample, showed a vulnerability to COVID-19 pandemic stress due to high levels of hyper-arousal in subjects with alexithymic traits and interoceptive confusion.
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spelling pubmed-105442392023-10-03 Alexithymia and Interoceptive Confusion in Covid-19 Pandemic Distress Miniati, Mario Poidomani, Chiara Conversano, Ciro Orrù, Graziella Ciacchini, Rebecca Marazziti, Donatella Perugi, Giulio Gemignani, Angelo Palagini, Laura Clin Neuropsychiatry Research Paper OBJECTIVE: Alexithymic traits are associated with the difficulty of perceiving 'non-affective interoceptive signals', and are related to a problematic management of stressful life events (SLEs). The main purpose of this study was to quantify the psychological response of the general population to COVID-19 pandemic stress and to evaluate potential correlations with the presence of 'alexithymic traits' and 'interoceptive confusion' (study protocol # 0077794/2022). METHOD: 175 subjects from general population were assessed with the Toronto-Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), the Event-Revised Impact Scale (IES-R), the Interoceptive Accuracy Scale (IAS), and the Interoceptive Confusion Questionnaire (ICQ). RESULTS: a significant relationship emerged between alexithymic traits (assessed with the TAS-20), the ICQ ‘interoceptive confusion’, and the domain of ‘hyper-arousal’ as assessed with IES-R. Logistic regression model showed that ICQ-Total Score and IES-R ‘hyper-arousal’ domain were significantly correlated with TAS-20 total score, with DR value (R2 corrected) explaining the 36.8% of the variability (standard error: 10.7). CONCLUSIONS: This study, albeit with the limitations of a cross-sectional experimental design with self-evaluation tools in a general population sample, showed a vulnerability to COVID-19 pandemic stress due to high levels of hyper-arousal in subjects with alexithymic traits and interoceptive confusion. Giovanni Fioriti Editore srl 2023-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10544239/ /pubmed/37791080 http://dx.doi.org/10.36131/cnfioritieditore20230405 Text en © 2023 Giovanni Fioriti Editore s.r.l. This is an open access article. Distribution and reproduction are permitted in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Miniati, Mario
Poidomani, Chiara
Conversano, Ciro
Orrù, Graziella
Ciacchini, Rebecca
Marazziti, Donatella
Perugi, Giulio
Gemignani, Angelo
Palagini, Laura
Alexithymia and Interoceptive Confusion in Covid-19 Pandemic Distress
title Alexithymia and Interoceptive Confusion in Covid-19 Pandemic Distress
title_full Alexithymia and Interoceptive Confusion in Covid-19 Pandemic Distress
title_fullStr Alexithymia and Interoceptive Confusion in Covid-19 Pandemic Distress
title_full_unstemmed Alexithymia and Interoceptive Confusion in Covid-19 Pandemic Distress
title_short Alexithymia and Interoceptive Confusion in Covid-19 Pandemic Distress
title_sort alexithymia and interoceptive confusion in covid-19 pandemic distress
topic Research Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10544239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37791080
http://dx.doi.org/10.36131/cnfioritieditore20230405
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