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The Specificity of the Link Between Alexithymia, Interoception, and Imitation
被引:22
作者:
Sowden, Sophie
[1
]
Brewer, Rebecca
[2
]
Catmur, Caroline
[3
]
Bird, Geoffrey
[1
,4
]
机构:
[1] Kings Coll London, MRC Social Genet & Dev Psychiat Ctr, Inst Psychiat Psychol & Neurosci, London, England
[2] Univ East London, Sch Psychol, London E15 4LZ, England
[3] Kings Coll London, Dept Psychol, Inst Psychiat Psychol & Neurosci, London, England
[4] UCL, Inst Cognit Neurosci, London WC1E 6BT, England
基金:
英国医学研究理事会;
关键词:
alexithymia;
interoception;
imitation-inhibition;
self-other processing;
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS;
TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION;
AUTOMATIC IMITATION;
SOCIAL COGNITION;
QUOTIENT AQ;
COMPATIBILITY;
POPULATION;
INHIBITION;
AWARENESS;
OXYTOCIN;
D O I:
10.1037/xhp0000310
中图分类号:
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号:
04 ;
0402 ;
摘要:
Alexithymia is a subclinical condition traditionally characterized by difficulties identifying and describing one's own emotions. Recent formulations of alexithymia, however, suggest that the condition may result from a generalized impairment in the perception of all bodily signals ("interoception"). Interoceptive accuracy has been associated with a variety of deficits in social cognition, but recently with an improved ability to inhibit the automatic tendency to imitate the actions of others. The current study tested the consequences for social cognition of the hypothesized association between alexithymia and impaired interoception by examining the relationship between alexithymia and the ability to inhibit imitation. If alexithymia is best characterized as a general interoceptive impairment, then one would predict that alexithymia would have the same relationship with the ability to control imitation as does interoceptive accuracy. Forty-three healthy adults completed measures of alexithymia, imitation-inhibition, and as a control, inhibition of nonimitative spatial compatibility. Results revealed the predicted relationship, such that increasing alexithymia was associated with an improved ability to inhibit imitation, and that this relationship was specific to imitation-inhibition. These results support the characterization of alexithymia as a general interoceptive impairment and shed light on the social ability of alexithymic individuals-with implications for the multitude of psychiatric, neurological, and neuro-developmental disorders associated with high rates of alexithymia.
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页码:1687 / 1692
页数:6
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