Suslow T, Arolt V, Junghanns K
Klinik für Psychiatrie Medizinische Universität, Lübeck.
Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol. 1998 May;48(5):168-75.
The emotional valence of stimuli seems to be stored in the associative network and is automatically activated on the mere observation of a stimulus. A principal characteristic of alexithymia represents the difficulty to symbolize emotions verbally. The present study examines the relationship between the dimensions of the alexithymia construct and emotional priming effects in a word-word paradigma. The 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale was administered to 32 subjects along with two word reading tasks as measures of emotional and semantic priming effects. The subscale "difficulty describing feelings" correlated as expected negatively with the negative inhibition effect. The subscale "externally oriented thinking" tended to correlate negatively with the negative facilitation effect. Thus, these dimensions of alexithymia are inversely related to the degree of automatic emotional priming. In summary, there is evidence for an impaired structural integration of emotion and language in persons with difficulties in describing feelings. Poor "symbolization" of emotions in alexithymia is discussed from a cognitive perspective.
刺激的情感效价似乎存储在联想网络中，并且仅在观察到刺激时就会自动被激活。述情障碍的一个主要特征是难以用言语将情感符号化。本研究在一个词-词范式中考察了述情障碍结构维度与情绪启动效应之间的关系。对32名受试者施测了20项多伦多述情障碍量表，并进行了两项单词阅读任务，作为情绪和语义启动效应的测量指标。“描述情感困难”分量表与负抑制效应呈预期的负相关。“外向性思维”分量表倾向于与负促进效应呈负相关。因此，述情障碍这些维度与自动情绪启动程度呈负相关。总之，有证据表明在描述情感有困难的人群中，情绪与语言的结构整合受损。从认知角度对述情障碍中情感的不良“符号化”进行了讨论。
