Alexithymia and Emotion Regulation: The Role of Affective Forecasting

Alexithymia (i.e. low emotional awareness) predicts a tendency to disengage from negative emotions and this is linked to myriad negative outcomes. It is not yet clear why alexithymia predicts emotional disengagement. In intensive longitudinal studies, we explore affective forecasting as a mechanism linking alexithymia to disengagement from negative emotions.