Attribution of Cause by Patients with Depression, Anxiety, and Alexithymia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13650674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas N Wise (Georgetown University, corresponding author), Aaron Kheriaty (Georgetown University), Aaron D Kheriaty (Georgetown University), Michael J Sheridan (0000-0002-2542-3347, Georgetown University) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 259-263 |
| Publication date | 2004-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.94.1.259-263 |
| PMID | 15077775 |
| OpenAlex | W2078291868 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
This study evaluated the relationship between the personality construct of alexithymia and the attribution of depression to biological, psychological, sociocultural, and external stress. When alexithymia was considered as a continuous variable, there was a significant correlation between a higher score on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale and a greater belief in psychological causes for their psychiatric disorder. The other factors also had positive but nonsignificant correlations with alexithymia. When alexithymia was categorically partitioned and controlled for depressed mood, alexithymic subjects more frequently endorsed all four factors to be causal for their psychiatric illness. This appears to contradict earlier assumptions that alexithymic patients tend to be less psychologically minded than those without this psychological trait
Alexithymia · Anxiety · Attribution · Depression (economics · Mood · Personality · Psychiatry · Toronto Alexithymia Scale · Trait · Clinical Psychology · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.06 |
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| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |