Schizophrenic patients are known to experience difficulties in emotional information processing, yet knowledge of their physiological responsivity to emotional stimuli is limited.
Besides, some authors have found a negative correlation between satisfaction with life and alexithymia, even by taking into account confusion factors such as depression and physical health perception, which shows a possibility of low satisfaction with life being associated with difficulties in emotional processing, as is the case in alexithymia sufferers [31].
The DERS assesses difficulties in emotional awareness, emotional acceptance, goal-directed behaviors and the application of effective ER strategies.
In the current study, most glioma patients reported difficulties in emotional, social, cognitive, physical and role functioning.
It is also strongly negatively correlated with psychological symptoms, neuroticism, thought suppression and difficulties in emotional regulation [ 37].
Therefore, the patients reported more and severer difficulties in emotional and social domains than in cognitive, physical and role functioning.
Future research should focus on emotional functioning in more detail in order to identify those patients that are most likely to develop difficulties in emotional functioning and who would benefit from specific psychosocial support aimed at workforce participation.
In individuals with chronic alcoholism, persistent sensitization of subcortical limbic-striatal regions from prolonged alcohol use could compromise the PFC regulatory function, resulting in difficulties in emotional regulation, poor impulse control, and high alcohol craving.
The development of an effective intervention for preventing difficulties in emotional and cognitive functioning of cancer patients' post-treatment will help to guide health care professionals to improve patients' overall quality of life.
Children of depressed mothers are more likely to suffer a range of adverse outcomes, including insecure attachment, behavioural problems, cognitive developmental deficits and difficulties in emotional functioning, some of these continuing into adolescence [ 9, 26- 29].
