Relationships between somatic complaints and alexithymic tendencies were investigated in junior-high-school students N 1,206; 626 boys and 580 girls that completed the Somatic Complaint List SCL and the Alexithymia Scale for Adolescents ASA. Results indicated that girls had signi cantly higher total SCL scores than boys d .18 , and third-year students had signi cantly higher total SCL scores than rst-year students d .18. Moreover, a hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that di culty identifying feelings DIF subscale of the ASA contributed to higher SCL scores boys: β .33, p .01; girls: β .37, p .01 , and furthermore, diculty describing feelings DDF subscale played a role in increasing somatic complaints in boys β .10, p .05. Also, the DIF DDF interaction was associated with the total SCL score in girls. ese results suggest that alexithymic tendencies, especially DIF and secondarily DDF, in uence somatic complaints of junior-highschool students.

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