A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between alexithymia and suicide ideation and behaviour
| العنوان: | A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between alexithymia and suicide ideation and behaviour |
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| المؤلفون: | Laura Hemming, Peter J. Taylor, Daniel Pratt, Jennifer Shaw, Gillian Haddock |
| المصدر: | Journal of Affective Disorders Hemming, L, Taylor, P, Haddock, G, Shaw, J & Pratt, D 2019, ' A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between alexithymia and suicide ideation and behaviour ', Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 254, pp. 34 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.05.013 |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier BV, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Alexithymia, Adult, Male, Population, MEDLINE, Bivariate analysis, Suicide prevention, Article, Suicidal Ideation, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine, Humans, Affective Symptoms, education, Association (psychology), Depression (differential diagnoses), education.field_of_study, Depression, medicine.disease, 030227 psychiatry, Suicide, Meta-analysis, Psychiatry and Mental health, Clinical Psychology, Female, Psychology, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Clinical psychology |
| الوصف: | Highlights • Alexithymia is more closely related to suicide ideation than to suicide behaviour. • The subcomponents of difficulty identifying and describing feelings are more closely related to suicide ideation and behaviour than the subcomponent of externally oriented thinking. • The relationship between alexithymia and suicide ideation appears robust when controlling for confounding variables, though the relationship between suicide behaviour and alexithymia is not so robust. • Future research should aim to examine causality in this relationship through using longitudinal designs. Background Alexithymia reflects a difficulty with identifying and expressing emotions. This experience has been proposed as having an association with suicide ideation and behaviour. This review aimed to synthesise the evidence to establish the bivariate and multivariate relationships between alexithymia, and its subcomponents, with suicide ideation and behaviour. Methods Search terms related to alexithymia and suicide ideation and behaviour were searched across nine prominent databases in May 2018. Studies were eligible for inclusion if they reported original empirical quantitative findings from adult samples, used a validated measure of alexithymia, and any measure of suicide ideation or behaviour. Results Thirty-four studies were eligible for inclusion in this review. The review found a large effect size for the relationship between alexithymia and suicide ideation (r = 0.54, 95% CI= 0.40–0.65) and a small effect size for the relationship between alexithymia and suicide behaviour (r = 0.25, 95% CI = 0.16–0.34). Limitations A high level of heterogeneity was found in the meta-analysis meaning that results should be interpreted with caution. Conclusion A positive association was found between alexithymia and suicide ideation and, to a lesser extent, behaviour across a range of clinical and general population samples. This review has potentially important clinical implications, and promotes the need for suicide prevention to focus on emotion regulation skills. |
| تدمد: | 0165-0327 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::84ccc895bbdaea887e4a2fa931539ea1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.05.013 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....84ccc895bbdaea887e4a2fa931539ea1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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