Alexithymic traits and somatic symptoms in children and adolescents: a screening approach to explore the mediation role of depression
The association among alexithymia, somatic symptoms and clinical correlates has been
scantly investigated in children. The present study examined alexithymic features and
somatic symptomatology in schoolchildren with high and low levels of depression,
testing the role of depressive symptoms in mediating the associations between
alexithymia and somatic symptoms. Seven-hundred schoolchildren were involved in this
study and divided into two subgroups (8–10 years and 11–14 years) in order to test