虐待儿童和alexithymia:一个元分析审查
Julia Ditzer1, Eileen Y Wong1, Rhea N Modi1
1Department of Psychology, Stanford University.
Psychological bulletin
|June 1, 2023
概括
虐待儿童与成年人的alexithymia有关,即无法识别和描述情绪. 在这项对36141名参与者的元分析中,情绪虐待和忽视以及身体忽视是最强的预测因素.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 精神病学是一个精神病学.
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
背景情况:
- 亚历克西西米亚的特点是难以识别和描述情绪,这是一个重要的跨诊断风险因素.
- 尽管alexithymia具有临床意义,但其病因在很大程度上仍未知.
- 虐待儿童是成年人alexithymia的一个假设先例.
研究的目的:
- 以元分析的方式总结现有的关于虐待儿童和成人alexithymia之间的关系的研究.
- 确定与alexithymia最强烈相关的特定类型的虐待儿童.
- 探索这种关系的潜在调节者.
主要方法:
- 来自99个独立样本的相关系数的元分析.
- 包括报告儿童虐待史和成人alexithymia水平的研究.
- 总共有36,141名参与者的数据分析.
主要成果:
- 在整体儿童虐待和成人亚历克西西米亚 (r = .23) 之间发现了显著的积极关系.
- 情绪虐待 (r = .18),情绪疏忽 (r = .21) 和身体疏忽 (r = .18) 成为最强的预测因素.
- 观察到性别,样本类型 (临床与非临床) 和出版状态的缓和效应.
结论:
- 虐待儿童是成人alexithymia发展的重要危险因素.
- 特定形式的虐待,特别是情感和身体的忽视,与alexithymia有明显的关联.
- 这些发现提高了对alexithymia早期环境影响的理解.
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