Personality and Cognitive-Emotional Variables in Spanish Children and Adolescents With and Without Cleft Lip and/or Palate

CONCLUSION: 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.PMID:34128404 | DOI:10.1177/1055665620965114
Source: The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal - Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Source Type: research