Social Desirability and Alexithymia

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ID13665347
AuthorsIsao Fukunishi (Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume75
Issue2
Pages835-838
Publication date1994-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1994.75.2.835
PMID7862792
OpenAlexW2132804783
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited8

We examined the influence of alexithymia on social desirability among 215 Japanese college students. Alexithymic-scoring students who showed a lack of communicating their feelings to other people were likely to indicate higher scores on hostility and lower scores on social desirability. The scores on hostility were negatively correlated with those on social desirability. Recent studies have shown that alexithymia is positively correlated not only with neurotic and psychotic conditions but also with neuroticism. Unfavorable expression of hostile feelings by alexithymic-scoring students may be related to their lower scores on social desirability

Alexithymia · Developmental psychology · Feeling · Hostility · Neuroticism · Personality · Social desirability · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Clinical Psychology · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Social Psychology

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