Examination of the Relationship Between Alexithymia and Satisfaction with Life in Patients with Epilepsy: A Cross-sectional Study
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Abstract
Satisfaction with life is defined as the degree of positive evaluation of the overall quality of one's current life as a whole.In other words, it is individuals' subjective evaluation of how much they love the life they live and how happy they are in the cognitive and emotional Abstract Objective: Patients with epilepsy (PWE) may experience emotional difficulties and distress if they cannot cope consistently with the emotional and physical challenges of having a seizure.This study was conducted to examine the relationship between alexithymia and life satisfaction in PWE.Methods: This study was conducted with 207 PWE in a hospital in eastern Türkiye.Data were collected using the "Individual information forms", "Toronto Alexithymia Scale", and "Satisfaction with Life Scale".Descriptive statistics, t-tests, ANOVA, correlation, and regression analyses, and post-hoc LSD analyses were employed for data evaluation.Results: In the present study, the alexithymia total mean score of the PWE was 58.01±9.07, the total mean score of "difficulty identifying feelings" was 19.84±5.82, the total mean score of "difficulty describing feelings" was 14.42±3.30,and the total mean score of "externally oriented thinking" was 23.75±2.88.The total mean satisfaction with life score was 13.82±4.23.A significant negative correlation was found between total alexithymia and life satisfaction scores of PWE, who participated in the study (F=11.87;p<0.05).Conclusion: It was found that PWE had high alexithymia levels and lower life satisfaction levels.As the total alexithymia score increased, the total life satisfaction score decreased.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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