Human study · Research · 8 Nov 2026
In 877 adults in Lebanon, higher cognitive disengagement scores lined up with less awareness of body signals
Source: Psychology, Health & Medicine
What the research found
A cross-sectional survey was published on 8 November 2026. Nour Atieh, Souheil Hallit, and colleagues recruited 877 Lebanese adults ages 18 to 70 by snowball sampling. 64.3 percent were women and 35.7 percent were men. Questionnaires covered cognitive disengagement (mental sluggishness, daydreaming, and low activity), alexisomia (low awareness of body signals), a stress rating, a four-item anxiety and low-mood scale, and an insomnia severity index. Models adjusted for marital status, education, and living situation. The interaction of disengagement with anxiety-mood was B = -0.04 (p = 0.011), and with insomnia B = -0.03 (p = 0.002). The stress interaction was B = -0.03 (p = 0.076) and was not significant after a correction for uneven variance. At low, average, and high anxiety-mood and insomnia, higher disengagement still lined up with higher alexisomia, and higher anxiety-mood and insomnia weakened that link. People reported their own symptoms. The design cannot say which came first. DOI 10.1080/13548506.2026.2759978. Not medical advice.
Evidence level: Human study. A study in people, but an association isn't proof of cause.
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