RT Journal Article
T1 Music and facial emotion recognition and its relationship with alexithymia
T2 Placer por la música y su relación con la anhedonia social
A1 García-Rodríguez, María
A1 Alvarado Izquierdo, Jesús María
A1 Fernández-Company, José-Fernando
A1 Jiménez Rodríguez, Virginia
A1 Ivanova Iotova, Anelia
AB The objective of this study was to determine the influence of alexithymia on the ability to identify emotions through visual and auditory stimuli. We assessed Alexithymia using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). As visual stimuli, we employed the images of faces from the Ekman 60 Faces Test, while the auditory stimuli consisted of fragments of instrumental music. A total of 303 students participated, 139 in secondary education and 164 in the first year of university (M = 17.58 years; SD = 4.16). The results show higher alexithymia levels in the female participants than in the male participants, mainly in the difficulty identifying feelings (DIF) and difficulty describing feelings (DDF) factors, and higher in the secondary students than in the university students, especially in externally oriented thinking (EOT). In terms of the identification of emotions through auditory stimuli, the EOT factor showed a strong predictive effect for the emotions of surprise and anger. For the visual stimuli, the EOT factor showed predictive validity for identifying happiness, while the DDF factor showed predictive validity for identifying sadness. We conclude that there is a relationship between alexithymia levels and emotion recognition, which varies depending on the nature of the stimulus.
PB SAGE
SN 0305-7356
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/92931
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/92931
LA eng
NO García-Rodríguez, M., Alvarado, J. M., Fernández-Company, J.-F., Jiménez, V., & Ivanova-Iotova, A. (2023). Music and facial emotion recognition and its relationship with alexithymia. Psychology of Music, 51(1), 259-273. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356221091311
NO Funding information;The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: the Santander-UCM “Evaluación de la Inteligencia Emocional a partir de Secuencias Cinematográficas” (grant number PR87/19-22661).
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 14 dic 2025