Introduction: Impaired empathy is one of the major dysfunctions commonly found in patients with schizophrenia, with alexithymia being one possible underlying factor. Schizotypy represents a set of psychotic-like manifestations, investigation of which may contribute to our understanding of psychosis while minimising the confounding effects of illness chronicity and medication exposure. Few studies have specifically examined the associations among alexithymia, empathy and schizotypy.

Methods: We investigated the relationships among alexithymia, empathy and schizotypy in college students using network analysis. The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS), and Chapman Psychosis-Proneness scales were captured, and network based on the subscales were estimated in 552 participants. Strength, closeness and betweenness of nodes were calculated to measure the centrality.

Results: Network analyses revealed a pattern connecting alexithymia with empathy and schizotypy. Negative connections between empathy and physical/social anhedonia and positive edges linking alexithymia with empathy and social anhedonia were observed.

Conclusions: Network constructed in the study demonstrated alexithymia’s role in empathic deficits. Our findings highlighted the connections between components of empathy, alexithymia and schizotypy.

简介：移情障碍是精神分裂症患者常见的主要功能障碍之一，运动障碍是潜在的潜在因素之一。精神分裂症代表了一组类似精神病的表现，对其进行的调查可能有助于我们对精神病的理解，同时最大程度地减少疾病慢性病和药物暴露的混杂影响。很少有研究专门研究了智力低下，移情和精神分裂症之间的联系。

方法：我们使用网络分析法调查了大学生的读写障碍，同理心和精神分裂症之间的关系。收集了人际反应指数（IRI），多伦多Alexithymia量表（TAS）和查普曼精神病-虚度量表，并在552位参与者中估算了基于该量表的网络。计算节点的强度，紧密度和中间度以测量中心度。

结果：网络分析揭示了一种将运动障碍与移情和精神分裂症联系起来的模式。观察到共情和身体/社交性快感缺乏之间的负相关以及将运动障碍与共情和社交性快感缺乏联系起来的积极因素。

结论：研究中构建的网络证明了运动障碍在移情障碍中的作用。我们的研究结果突出了共情，焦虑症和精神分裂症之间的联系。