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  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Background:

  • Alexithymia and autism share social-cognitive and perceptual deficits, impacting social interaction.
  • These deficits are also characteristic of personality disorders (PDs), but the relationship is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between autistic and alexithymic traits and specific PD dimensions.
  • To clarify the overlap between autism, alexithymia, and PDs.

Main Methods:

  • Study included individuals with autism (AP), other psychiatric diagnoses (NAP), and neurotypicals (NPs).
  • Linear regression analyses were used to predict PD dimensions from autistic and alexithymic traits, controlling for covariates.
  • The Assessment of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) Personality Disorders Questionnaire (ADP-IV) was used for PD assessment.

Main Results:

  • Autistic traits predicted the obsessive-compulsive PD dimension.
  • Alexithymic traits predicted the borderline PD dimension.
  • Both autistic and alexithymic traits predicted the schizoid PD dimension.

Conclusions:

  • Findings suggest overlaps between autistic traits and PD dimensions that are differential diagnoses of autism.
  • Alexithymia was specifically linked to the borderline PD dimension.
  • These results highlight distinct yet overlapping pathways between neurodevelopmental traits and personality pathology.