述情障碍成因的认知及社会机制

A Review of Researches on Cognitive and Social Mechanism of Alexithymia

对述情障碍本质和形成原因的解释主要包括认知机制和社会机制两种,认知机制认为,述情障碍体现了在情绪认知加工上的缺陷,主要涉及到情绪图式、心理理论和执行功能等方面;社会机制认为,述情障碍的产生与儿童早年的一些经历有关,并在社会文化和社会关系中得到不断的强化,主要涉及到社会文化、社会经济地位和家庭功能及环境等方面。未来研究要把研究视角进一步扩展到热执行功能、整合研究、提出系统的社会机制理论等方面,在研究方法上,注意测量工具和研究技术的进一步改进。

There are two kinds of theories to illustrate the essence and cause of alexithymia, including cognitive mechanism and social mechanism. Cognitive mechanism suggests that alexithymia incarnates the defect of the cognitive processing of emotion, involving the emotion schemas, theory of mind and executive function. While social mechanism believes that the emergence of alexithymia is associated with the early experience in the childhood and the development of alexithymia is continuously reinforced by the social culture and social relations, mainly including the social culture, social-economic status, family function and environment. Future researches should be mainly focused on the extension of research contents, such as the hot executive function, integrated researches and the proposing of systematic theory of social mechanism and so on. Researching methods should also be improved in the aspects of the measurement and research technology.