چکیده:
Objective: Alexithymia is recognized as a disability in explaining or understanding emotions and manifests at emotional and functional levels. This study was conducted with the aim of clarifying the role of early maladaptive schemas and attachment style in alexithymia disorder.Methods: This research was a correlational study. In this study, 220 students of Tabriz University were selected by stratified random sampling. Then,The Toronto Alexithymia Scale questionnaire (TAS-20), Adult Attachment Questionnaire (AAQ) of Hazan and Shaver, and the Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form (YSQ-SF) were conducted to them. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and simultaneous regression analysis. Statistical analysis were performed using the SPSS 20.Results: The results showed that components of early maladaptive schemas, ‘Impaired Autonomy’ and ‘Over-vigilance’ and among attachment styles, avoidance could positively predict the alexithymia.Conclusion: Accordingly, early maladaptive schemas and attachment style are essential topredict and treat people with alexithymia.
خلاصه ماشینی:
This study was conducted with the aim of clarifying the role of early maladaptive schemas and attachment style in alexithymia disorder.
Results: The results showed that components of early maladaptive schemas, ‘Impaired Autonomy’ and ‘Over-vigilance’ and among attachment styles, avoidance could positively predict the alexithymia.
Early maladaptive schemas are formed due to the fail- ure to satisfy the basic emotional needs in childhood (For example, secure attachment, freedom of expression needs, realistic constraints, autonomy, and spontaneity) and through ongoing patterns of adverse experiences with family members and peers, , the mismatch between parents behavior, and the child’s innate temperament (Thimm, 2010).
Early maladaptive schemas act at the deepest level of understanding, and generally act out of conscious- ness and psychologically vulnerable people to depres- sion, anxiety, dysfunctional relationships, drug addic- tion, childhood Trauma, social phobia, eating disorders, personality disorders and psychosomatic Disorders.
Ball and Young (2000) in an experimental research studied the relationship between emotional 40 January 2015, Volume 3, Number 1 arousal and irrational thinking with life satisfaction be- tween male and female students.
After explaining the purpose of the study and assuring the confidentiality of the research, Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) questionnaire, Adult Attachment Questionnaire (AAQ) of Hazan and Shaver, and the Young Schema Question- naire-Short Form (YSQ-SF) were distributed among them.
These results correspond with the findings of previous researches (Besharat, 2009, 2012; Trisi, D-Argenio, Per- acchio, and Petti, 2001; Fonagy, Gergely, Jurist, and Tar- get, 2002; Kooiman, Vellinga, Spinhoven, Draijer, Tri- jsburg, and Rooijmans, 2004; Montebarocci, Codispoti, Baldaro, and Rossi, 2004).