Influence of alexithymia on somatic complaints among Japanese adolescents
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study examined alexithymic tendencies and the effect of these tendencies on somatic complaints in Japanese adolescents. Japanese adolescents (n=2,759; age range 12—20 years) participated in the study. Alexithymic tendencies were assessed by the Alexithymia Scale for Adolescents (ASA) and somatic complaints by the Somatic Complaint List (SCL). The results indicated the following. (1) The total ASA score remained high from early to late adolescence. (2) The ASA total scores remained high because ASA subfactors, difficulty in identifying feelings (DIF), and difficulty describing feelings (DDF) increased during adolescence, whereas externally oriented thinking (EOT) decreased, (3) The DIF significantly affected adolescents’ somatic complaints irrespective of their grade or gender. (4) The DDF increased somatic complaints of junior high and high school-aged male participants only, but this effect disappeared as respondents’ age increased and they became undergraduates. These results indicate that the effect of alexithymic tendencies on somatic complaints changes with age. The study further revealed that the DIF consistently affects the increase in somatic complaints.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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