Objective: To explore the relationship among traumatic experiences in childhood, alexithymia, and interpersonal distress of college students.
Methods: Using the convenience sampling method, 466 college students were surveyed online by the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-28 Short Form, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20, and the Interpersonal Comprehensive Diagnostic Scale. SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 24.0 were used to analyze the data and test the mediation effect.
Results: There was no statistically significant difference in gender between childhood traumatic experiences, alexithymia, and interpersonal distress of college students. College students who were not an only child have higher scores in childhood trauma experiences and alexithymia than only children, and the differences were statistically significant (p<; 0.001 and p=0.023). The scores of traumatic experiences in childhood, alexithymia, and interpersonal distress of individuals with disharmony in family were higher than those with a harmonious family, and the differences were statistically significant (p<; 0.001, p=0.021 and p=0.001). Traumatic experiences in childhood were positively correlated with alexithymia (r=0.254, p<; 0.001); traumatic experiences in childhood were positively correlated with interpersonal distress (r=0.268, p<; 0.001); alexithymia was positively correlated with interpersonal distress (r=0.461, p<; 0.001). Alexithymia partially mediated the relationship between childhood traumatic experiences and interpersonal distress. The indirect effect value was 0.212, accounting for 43.62% of the total effect value.
Conclusion: Early traumatic experiences may lead to alexithymia and increase the likelihood of future interpersonal distress.
LI Mingyue
,
DING Yueping
,
LI Dan
. The Effects of Traumatic Experiences in Childhood on Interpersonal Relationships of College Students: The Mediating Role of Alexithymia[J]. Psychological Communications, 2022
, 5(3)
: 176
-181
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DOI: 10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.222028
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