Background Because emotional symptoms are common in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD) patients and associate with much morbidity, some consider it to be a core …

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by pervasive mood disturbance as well as
deficits in emotional processing, reactivity, and regulation. There is accumulating evidence …

Abstract The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) is a 10-item self-report measure of 2
emotion regulation strategies, cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. It is a …

Alexithymia is an important mental health construct, but there is continuing debate regarding
its definition and measurement. We attempt to resolve this definitional uncertainty in two …

Alexithymia is a trait comprising people's ability to focus attention on and accurately
appraise their own emotions. Its assessment is of clinical interest because people who have …

Emotion regulation problems underlie the abnormal levels of negative or positive emotion
that characterise many forms of psychopathology. Several self-report measures of emotion …

Fifty years ago, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics published an article by John Nemiah
and Peter Sifneos [1] in which they reported some clinical observations on the mentation of a …

Alexithymia refers to difficulties identifying feelings (DIF), describing feelings (DDF), and
externally orientated thinking (EOT). Originally conceptualized by American psychiatrists …

Objective There is ongoing uncertainty about the structure and definition of alexithymia.
Conceptually, alexithymia has traditionally been defined as a multidimensional trait with four …

People's beliefs about emotions may be grouped into two main categories: beliefs about the
controllability of emotions and beliefs about the usefulness of emotions. These beliefs …