Alexithymia as a mediator in the relationship of posttraumatic stress with anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic
Bibliographic record
Abstract
There has been an increase in the levels of many psychological problems including anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexithymia can be considered an important psychological problem. However, it may be difficult to differentiate between post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), anxiety symptoms, and alexithymia because they share symptoms like avoidance. To develop psychological interventions, it will be useful to determine the extent to which alexithymia influences PTSS and anxiety. This study examined alexithymia as a mediator in the relationship of PTSS with anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in Türkiye. The sample consisted of 417 male and female adults aged between 18 to 68. Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficients and structural equation modeling were computed to examine the relationships. Data were gathered through the Demographic Information Form, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist, Beck Anxiety Inventory, and Toronto Alexithymia Inventory. Findings showed that PTSS was related to alexithymia and anxiety, and alexithymia was associated with anxiety. Moreover, alexithymia had a partial mediator effect in the relationship between PTSS and anxiety. The findings highlight the importance of mental health professionals considering alexithymia when evaluating and planning treatment for individuals with PTSS and anxiety.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".