Do individuals with a high level of alexithymia get lost in telling the story of their own romantic relationship? The mediating role of self-narrative inclinations
Do individuals with a high level of alexithymia get lost in telling the story of their own romantic relationship? The mediating role of self-narrative inclinations
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Zdankiewicz-Ścigała, Elżbieta
Ścigała, Dawid Konrad
Trzebiński, Jerzy
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2024-12-18
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Advances in Cognitive Psychology
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4
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20
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366-375
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1895-1171
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2024-12-18
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The purpose of the current study was to verify the hypothesis on the role of alexithymia in the narratization of a romantic relationship. Assuming that the skills of experiencing, regulating, and verbalizing emotions constitute an important structural element of a self-narrative with an expressive thread, we hypothesized that the narratives of individuals with high levels of alexithymia, in whom these skills are impaired, would be characterized by a lower clarity of the self-narrative thread, which may be particularly evident when describing romantic relationships. In addition, we assumed that alexithymia would be negatively associated with self-narrative inclinations. The study was conducted online and involved 359 adults who had been in a romantic relationship for at least six months. Two questionnaires were used, namely, the TAS-20 to investigate alexithymia and the IAN to investigate romantic inclinations. In addition, participants described, in accordance with the instructions received, the romantic relationships they were in. The participants’ narratives were then evaluated in terms of the degree of clarity of the self-narrative thread by competent assessors. A significant positive relationship of narrative clarity with self-narrative inclinations was found, as well as a negative relationship of narrative clarity with the level of alexithymia. In addition, the mediating role of narrative inclinations on the relationship between the difficulty in naming emotions and externally oriented thinking and narrative clarity was confirmed.
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alexithymia
narrative features
difficulty in naming emotions
narrative inclinations
romantic relationships
narrative features
difficulty in naming emotions
narrative inclinations
romantic relationships
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