Emotional processing deficits and happiness : assessing the measurement, correlates, and well-being of people with alexithymia / Linden R. Timoney, Mark D. Holder.
This briefs reviews the literature on alexithymia with a particular focus on the relation between positive well-being and alexithymia. It starts by exploring the definition, history and etiology of the construct. The briefs then discusses the importance of research and presents new research which sh...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
2013.
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| Series: | SpringerBriefs in well-being and quality of life research,
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | This briefs reviews the literature on alexithymia with a particular focus on the relation between positive well-being and alexithymia. It starts by exploring the definition, history and etiology of the construct. The briefs then discusses the importance of research and presents new research which sheds light on why alexithymia is characterized by poor well-being. The research strongly suggests that people who score high in alexithymia are low in aspects of positive well-being such as happiness, life satisfaction, and positive affect, and high in aspects of negative well-being, such as depression and negative affect. Next, the book examines the correlates of alexithymia and the latter's relation with personality and subjective well-being. Although there has been an increased interest in human flourishing, and even though research in positive psychology has included personality, there has been little application of positive psychology to people with deficits in emotional processing including people with alexithymia. This briefs fills that gap. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 90 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9400771762 9789400771765 9400771789 9789400771789 1299876641 9781299876644 9400771770 9789400771772 |
| ISSN: | 2211-7644 |