The relationship between alexithymia, borderline personality disorder and dependent personality disorder among a sample of university, institute and technical diploma students

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1 Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology, Fayoum University

2 Professor of Clinical Psychology - Faculty of Arts - Fayoum University

3 Department of Psychology - Faculty of Arts - Fayoum University

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The current study aimed to identify the relationship between alexithymia and both borderline and dependent personality disorders. The study sample consisted of (100) students, male and female, aged between 18 and 25 years. The study used the following tools: Toronto Alexithymia Scale for Adolescents. And adults (Arabization by Kafafi et al., 2020), the Borderline Personality Disorder Scale (prepared by Radwan, 2023), and the Dependent Personality Disorder Scale (prepared by the researcher). The results of the study resulted in:
There are statistically significant differences in the average scores of individuals on the alexithymia scale, according to the gender variable, in favor of the male group, while there were no differences between the two groups in both borderline and dependent personality disorders. There are also statistically significant differences in the average scores of individuals on Borderline personality disorder scale according to the age variable, in favor of the group under 20 years of age, while there were no differences between the two groups in both alexithymia and dependent personality disorder.
There were no statistically significant differences in the average scores of individuals on the alexithymia scale and the borderline and dependent personality disorder scales according to the variables (place of residence, work, educational level, and economic level), and there is also a statistically significant negative correlation between alexithymia and borderline and dependent personality disorders among students.

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