Alexithymia and Memory for Facial Emotions / Alexitimia y memoria para emociones faciales
Univ. psychol
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14(1): 103-110, ene.-mar. 2015. ilus, tab
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in English
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ABSTRACT
Alexithymia is a multi-faceted personality construct that encompasses, among other features, difficulties in identifying and describing emotions. Prior research suggests that alexithymia is associated with poor recognition memory for emotional words. This study addressed the question of whether memory for emotional faces varies as a function of alexithymia. The 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), and measures of depression, trait anxiety and intelligence were administered to 40 healthy women. During the encoding experiment angry, fearful, happy, and neutral faces were presented. After 30 minutes a recognition test was conducted. Partial correlation analysis revealed that the TAS-20 scale Difficulties describing feelings was inversely correlated with correct recognition of fearful and angry faces. Alexithymia appears to adversely affect memory functioning for negative emotional faces.
RESUMEN
La alexitimia es un constructo de personalidad multifacética que abarca, entre otras características, dificultades en la identificación y descripción de emociones. La investigación previa sugiere que la alexitimia se asocia con pobre memoria de reconocimiento para palabras emocionales. Este estudio abordó la pregunta de si la memoria para las caras emocionales varía en función de la alexitimia. El 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) y mediciones de depresión, ansiedad-rasgo e inteligencia se administraron a 40 mujeres sanas. Durante la codificación se presentaron rostros de enojo, temeroso, feliz, y se presentaron rostros neutrales. Después de 30 minutos se llevó a cabo una prueba de reconocimiento. El análisis de correlación parcial reveló que la escala TAS-20 y la descripción de sentimientos se correlacionó inversamente con adecuado reconocimiento de rostros temerosos y enojados. La alexitimia parece afectar negativamente a la memoria para los rostros emocionales negativos.
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Main subject:
Affective Symptoms
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Facial Expression
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Memory
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Univ. psychol
Journal subject:
Psicolog¡a
Year:
2015
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Germany
Institution/Affiliation country:
University of Leipzig/DE
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