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Alexithymia and tic disorders: a study on a sample of children and their mothers
- Source :
- European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 28:461-470
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018.
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Abstract
- Tic disorders are neurodevelopmental disorders characterised by the presence of motor or phonic tics, or both. Patients with tic disorders commonly report premonitory urges of tics. Alexithymia is a psychological trait characterised by a difficulty in identifying and expressing one's own feelings and by an externally oriented thinking. We aimed to explore alexithymia in children with tic disorders and in their mothers. Global alexithymia scores of both children with tic disorders and of their mothers did not differ from those of the participants from the control group. In the tic disorder group, however, both children and their mothers showed a cognitive style characterised by operational thinking and a lack of imaginative abilities. The mothers of children with tic disorder reported significantly higher parental stress. Alexithymia was not predictive of tic severity but was predictive of the severity of the premonitory urges. The implications of these findings are discussed.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities
medicine.medical_specialty
Tic disorder
Tics
media_common.quotation_subject
Mothers
Tourette syndrome
Thinking
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Alexithymia
mental disorders
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Child and adolescent psychiatry
Humans
Personality
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Affective Symptoms
Children
Premonitory urges
Tic disorders
Tourette
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Psychiatry and Mental Health
Child
media_common
Phonic Tic
05 social sciences
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Mother-Child Relations
nervous system diseases
030227 psychiatry
body regions
Psychiatry and Mental health
Cross-Sectional Studies
Feeling
Tic Disorders
Imagination
Female
Psychology
human activities
Tourette Syndrome
050104 developmental & child psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1435165X and 10188827
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....385e1f151d396879dcb4943163cc2e4b