The Relationship between Attachment Styles, Ambivalence over ‎Emotional Expressiveness and Alexithymia

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between attachment styles, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness and Alexithymia. In the academic year ۲۰۱۲-۲۰۱۳, ۳۰۰ female high school students of Avaj city participated in this study and they completed Attachment Style, Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness questionnaire and Toronto Alexithymia Scale. Results showed that there was a negative significant relationship between Alexithymia and secure attachment style and avoidant attachment style and that there was a positive relationship between Alexithymia and anxiety attachment style and ambivalence over emotional expressiveness. Ambivalence over emotional expressiveness and anxiety attachment style were predicators of difficult changes in identifying the emotion and Ambivalence over expressiveness and secure attachment style was predicator of the variance of difficulty in describing the emotion. ۱۱% of the externally oriented thinking variance was explained by Ambivalence over emotional expressiveness and anxiety attachment style. Also ۲۱% of the Alexithymia variance was explained by Ambivalence, anxiety and secure attachment styles. In order to prevent Alexithymia, in addition to strengthening the safety features of the attachment, it is needed to enhance the ability to regulate the emotions to overcome the ambivalence over emotional expressiveness.

کلیدواژه ها:

Attachment styles ، Ambivalence over emotional expressiveness ، alexithymia ، سبک های دلبستگی ، دوسوگرایی در ابراز هیجان ، ناگویی هیجانی