Personality and Cognitive-Emotional Variables in Spanish Children and Adolescents With and Without Cleft Lip and/or Palate.
Ana Ruiz GuillénMaría José González OlmoCecilia Peñacoba PuenteMartín Romero MarotoPublished in: The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association (2020)
Children with CL/P showed strengths in self-efficacy typical of peers and less use of some maladaptive coping strategies; however, they also had higher levels of alexithymia and risk factors associated with the Big Five Model of personality. Strategies may be clinically useful that maximize areas of strength to support children with CL/P in expressing their emotions to reduce alexithymia, coping with of negative affect, and building assertiveness.