The Relationship Between Alexithymia and Identity Disturbance in A sample Of Juvenile Delinquents

Makram, Noha ,; Fares, Ashraf Hakim; Mohammad, Ibrahim Hassan

doi:10.21608/qarts.2023.228324.1735

The Relationship Between Alexithymia and Identity Disturbance in A sample Of Juvenile Delinquents

Document Type : Original Article

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¹ Doctoral student - Department of Psychology - Faculty of Arts - South Valley University

² Professor - Department of Psychology - Faculty of Arts - South Valley University

³ Lecturer - Department of Psychology - Faculty of Arts - South Valley University

10.21608/qarts.2023.228324.1735

Abstract

The current study aimed to find out the relationship between Alexithymia and identity disorder in a sample of juvenile delinquents, on a sample of (215), (150 males, 65 females), from some penal institutions in several different governorates, to whom the Toronto Scale for Alexithymia (TAS-20) 1994 was applied. by "Taylor, Bagby, and Parker", and the identity disorder scale (prepared by the researcher), and the results of the hypotheses resulted in a correlation between Alexithymia in its dimensions with the total degree of identity disorder at the level of significance (0.01), and there were also differences between males and females in The study variables, where the differences were significant and in favor of females in the variable of Alexithymia and identity disorder at the level of significance (0.01).

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