OBJECTIVE The main objective was to determine the prediction level of alexithymia and difficulties in emotion regulation on pathological gambling. Secondly, this study aimed to examine the mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation on the relationship between alexithymia and pathological gambling. METHOD The sample was consisted of 246 male gamblers. The average age was 33.30 with a...

BACKGROUND Given the importance of test anxiety among gifted students, the present study was conducted to assess the intervening role of alexithymia in the relationship between test anxiety and attachment styles. METHODS By means of simple random sampling, 300 participants were selected out of all the students at two high schools in Khorramabad, which are affiliated with the Iranian National ...

Introduction: University students, as the future manpower resources, are of high importance for communities. One of the aspects to focus on is their mental health. The present study was conducted to determine the relationship between alexithymia, irrational beliefs, positive and negative emotions with mental disorders in students. Methods: There were 400 students, selected randomly through stra...

Alexithymia refers to deficiencies in identifying and expressing emotions. This might be related to changes in structural brain volumes, but its neuroanatomical basis remains uncertain as studies have shown heterogeneous findings. Therefore, we conducted a parametric coordinate-based meta-analysis. We identified seventeen structural neuroimaging studies (including a total of 2586 individuals wi...

Alexithymia refers to a specific disturbance in emotional processing that is manifested by difficulties in identifying and verbalizing feelings and a tendency to focus on and amplify the somatic sensations that accompany emotional arousal. Alexithymia is conceptualized both as an affect-deficit disorder and a continuous personality variable. The main purpose of the present study was to investig...

aim and background: the purpose of this study was to compare patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid) and normal persons in terms of alexithymia, severity of gastrointestinal symptoms, and demographic variables. methods and materials: this causal-comparative research included 129 fgid patients who were referred to a psychosomatic disorders clinic in isfahan, iran. a matched gr...

Aim. To study the level of alexithymia and anxiety in adolescents depending on age gender, to identify relationships.
 Materials methods. A survey clinically healthy was carried out using Toronto alexithymic scale (TAS-26) situational personal Ch.D. Spielberger – Yu. L. Khanin.
 Results. Among practically adolescents, over 60% have signs alexithymia, half them are with a pronounced al...

BACKGROUND A much higher prevalence of alexithymia has been reported in medical students compared with the general population, and alexithymia is a risk factor that increases vulnerability to mental disorders. Our aim was to evaluate the level of alexithymia in Chinese medical students and to explore its influencing factors. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 1,950 medical students at Shenyan...

OBJECTIVE the present study was undertaken to gain a better insight into the relationship between alexithymia, anxiety, and depression. Two hypotheses were tested: (1) whether a depressive or anxiety disorder is associated with an elevation of one or more dimensions of alexithymia; and (2) whether alexithymia is an independent construct from depression and anxiety in patients with depressive or...

NTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to examine alexithymia symptoms, demographic variables and the severity of gastrointestinal symptoms in a sample of patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) and a comparative sample of healthy controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sample consisted of 237 individuals, 129 of whom were patients diagnosed with FGIDs. The patients referred...