The role of Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation and Emotional Empathy in Alexithymia among female students of Urmia Azad University

Background and Aim : Alexithymia is one of the disorders in students that can lead to academic problems. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of mindfulness, emotion regulation and emotional empathy in alexithymia among female students of Urmia Azad University.Methods : This is a descriptive- correlational study. The statistical population of the study was all female students of Islamic Azad University of Urmia in of 2018-2019 Academic year. A total of 360 students were selected by available sampling and completed the mindfulness questionnaire Bauer et al, Emotion Regulation of Garnefski et al, Emotional empathy of Parsian et al., and Alexithymia of Toronto questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression.Results : The eesults showed a negative relationship between mindfulness (p < 0.01), positive emotion regulation (p < 0.01), and emotional empathy (p < 0.05) with alexithymia. There was a positive relationship between positive emotion regulation and alexithymia (p < 0.01) in female students. also Results of multiple regression showed that Research variables were able to predict %35 of the variance of alexithymia in female students.Conclusion : According to the results, it can be concluded that mindfulness, emotion regulation and emotional empathy played an important role in alexithymia in female students. Accordingly, it can be said that through education and promotion of mindfulness, emotion management and empathy skills, the level of alexithymia is reduced in female students.

Keywords:

Mindfulness , Emotion Regulation , Emotional Empathy , Alexithymia