Alexithymia determines the anxiety experienced in skydiving
Journal of Affective DisordersPublished 22 December 2008
Tim Woodman, Michelle Huggins, Christine Le Scanff, N. Cazenave
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Alexithymic individuals may find, in the high-risk domain, an environment that satisfies their emotion regulation needs and leave open interpretations that are based on anhedonia, which was not controlled for.
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Alexithymic individuals may find, in the high-risk domain, an environment that satisfies their emotion regulation needs.
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