Abstract:Background and Purpose: Alexithymia is defined as difficulties in identifying and describing the feelings, externally oriented thinking and limited imaginative processes. Most of studies on alexithymia have been performed on adults and less research has been done to assess alexithymia in children. Therefore the purpose of this study was to construct, validate and identify the factor structure of a children's alexithymia scale. Method: This research was a descriptive-survey study. The study population included … Show more
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