Myocardial infarction-induced acute stress and post-traumatic stress symptoms: the moderating role of an alexithymia trait - difficulties identifying feelings.
Katharina LedermannRoland von KänelJürgen BarthUlrich SchnyderHansjörg ZnojJean-Paul SchmidRebecca E Meister LangraffMary PrincipPublished in: European journal of psychotraumatology (2020)
In MI patients with high levels of DIF, ASS predicted the development of PTSS. If replicated, the finding may inform emotion-oriented interventions to investigate whether increasing the capacity to identify feelings following acute MI could be beneficial in preventing the development of PTSS.