Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.
Department of Psychiatry, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Lalitpur, Nepal.
Addict Behav. 2018 Jun;81:175-182. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.02.004. Epub 2018 Feb 6.
It has been hypothesized that individuals with alexithymia who have difficulty in identifying, expressing, and communicating emotions may overuse Internet as a tool of social interaction to better regulate their emotions and to fulfill their unmet social needs. Similarly, an increasing body of evidence suggests that alexithymia may also play an essential role in the etiopathogenesis of addictive disorders. We conducted a scoping review of questionnaire-based studies of problematic Internet use/Internet addiction and alexithymia. From initial 51 studies, all of the final 12 included studies demonstrated a significant positive association between scores of alexithymia and severity of Internet addiction. However, the causal direction of the association is not clear because the interplay of numerous other variables that could affect the relation has not been studied. There are limitations in the methodology of the studies conducted. Hence, we emphasise the need for longitudinal studies with stronger methodologies.
有人假设，那些难以识别、表达和交流情感的述情障碍个体可能会过度使用互联网作为社交互动的工具，以更好地调节自己的情绪，满足他们未满足的社交需求。同样，越来越多的证据表明，述情障碍也可能在成瘾障碍的发病机制中发挥重要作用。我们对基于问卷的网络使用问题/网络成瘾和述情障碍的研究进行了范围综述。从最初的 51 项研究中，最终纳入的 12 项研究均表明，述情障碍评分与网络成瘾严重程度之间存在显著的正相关关系。然而，由于尚未研究可能影响这种关系的许多其他变量的相互作用，因此关联的因果方向尚不清楚。所进行的研究在方法学上存在局限性。因此，我们强调需要进行具有更强方法学的纵向研究。
