Clients' positive and negative expressiveness within their families and alexithymia.
49 prospective clients from a midwestern urban community, who sought counseling at a university training clinic, completed the Self-expressiveness in the Family Questionnaire and the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. As predicted, the positive self-expressiveness scores were significantly negatively correlated -.52 with scores on alexithymia, and the negative self-expressiveness scores were significantly positively correlated .34 with alexithymia. These results support the premise that mental health clients' self-reported lack of positive expressiveness and abundance of negative expressiveness within their family context may be attributes associated with their tendency to be alexithymic.
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Department of Communication, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo 49008-5090, USA.
Hovestadt
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Nilsson
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Paul
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D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology*; D019260:Expressed Emotion / Q000145:classification; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012044:Regression Analysis