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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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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 |
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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. |
spellingShingle | Research Paper 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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