Pandey R, Mandal M K
Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
Br J Clin Psychol. 1997 Nov;36(4):631-3. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1997.tb01269.x.
The primary objective was to examine emotional responsiveness in alexithymia.
A quasi-experimental design was followed with the alexithymia variable being manipulated by subject stratification based on Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20-H.
Alexithymics (N = 12) and non-alexithymics (N = 12) were asked to match, label and verbally describe photographs displaying facial emotions along with TAT card II.
Alexithymics did not differ from non-alexithymics in emotional matching and labelling tasks but had significant difficulty in verbally describing emotional expressions as evident by less duration of utterance, greater response latency and increased linguistic-type speech disruptions. Speech disruptions did not produce a group difference for TAT card II.
Such difficulty in alexithymics may be associated with their inability to use emotional words in the appropriate context.
主要目的是研究述情障碍中的情绪反应。
采用准实验设计，根据多伦多述情障碍量表-20-H对被试进行分层，以此来操控述情障碍变量。
要求述情障碍者（N = 12）和非述情障碍者（N = 12）对展示面部表情的照片以及主题统觉测验卡片II进行匹配、标注并口头描述。
在情绪匹配和标注任务中，述情障碍者与非述情障碍者没有差异，但在口头描述情绪表达方面存在显著困难，表现为话语持续时间较短、反应潜伏期较长以及语言类言语中断增加。言语中断在主题统觉测验卡片II上未产生组间差异。
述情障碍者的这种困难可能与其无法在适当情境中使用情绪词汇有关。
