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Alexithymia and Subjective Well-Being

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Subjective well-being may be understood as a broad category encompassing both the cognitive (e.g., life satisfaction) and affective (e.g., happiness) evaluations of all aspects of a person’s life (Diener et al. 1999). Alexithymia is associated with low levels of life satisfaction, happiness and positive affect, and high levels of negative affect including depression. Furthermore, factors that have a strong, positive association with positive well-being are negatively correlated with alexithymia including close meaningful social relationships, good physical health, and extraversion. Additionally, factors that are negatively correlated with positive well-being are positively correlated with alexithymia including neuroticism, external locus of control, and personality disorders.

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Timoney, L.R., Holder, M.D. (2013). Alexithymia and Subjective Well-Being. In: Emotional Processing Deficits and Happiness. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7177-2_8

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