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Record W4415568289 · doi:10.59075/rjs.v3i4.254

Understanding the Role of Demographics in Emotional Processing: A Study on Alexithymia across University Students

2025· article· W4415568289 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueResearch Journal of Psychology · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldHealth Professions
TopicProblem Solving Skills Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAlexithymiaDemographicsSocioeconomic statusToronto Alexithymia ScaleAffect (linguistics)Descriptive statisticsScale (ratio)

Abstract

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The purpose of this study was to investigate how university students' demographics affect their alexithymia. Convenient sampling was used to reach a sample size of 482. A demographic questionnaire and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20-UR) were used to collect data. SPSS-24 was used for both descriptive statistics and neural network analysis. Alexithymia is significantly predicted by demographic characteristics, according to the study's normalized importance results. Specifically, the best indicator of alexithymia was the father's occupation (Importance =.172; 100%) followed by birth order (Importance =.144; 83.4%). The influence of parent’s education was the moderate strong (mother's education, Importance =.127; 73.4% and father's education Importance =.124; 71.9%). Alexithymia was also influenced by socioeconomic position (Importance =.081; 47.1%) and number of siblings (Importance =.105; 61%). Age (Importance =.081; 46.9%), family system (Importance =.059; 34.3%), and residential status (Importance =.057; 33.1%) was also altering alexithymia. The least significant variable was gender (Importance =.049; 28.7%). It was determined that the most important demographic predictors of alexithymia were the father's occupation, birth order, and parental education, while gender and residential status had little relevance.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.022
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.145
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0220.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.004
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.315
GPT teacher head0.565
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it