CHARACTERISTICS OF ALEXITHYMIA IN THE CONTEXT OF MENTAL HEALTH
https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2018-1-102-108
Abstract
The article considers alexithymia as one of the important factors of mental health. The paper presents materials of empirical research on this phenomenon in personality structure of patients with cardiovascular diseases (64 people) and "apparently healthy" subjects (85 people). The obtained results of factorization of alexithymia indicate that alexithymia as a psychological characteristic is significantly expressed, if considered in the context of mental and psychosomatic health. Alexithymia is a separate factor of personality structure in patients with cardiovascular diseases and is involved in each separate factor, which makes it a prominent part of the psychological characteristics of the "apparently healthy" respondents. The research materials can be used to improve the effectiveness of treatment in the development and testing of clinical and psychological support. Such support should be aimed at teaching patients new ways of constructive interaction with society and raising their awareness of their own emotional pains, which they have to be able to identify and tell from ordinary somatic states.
About the Authors
E. Iu. Brel
Tomsk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
I. Ia. Stoianova
Research Institute of Mental Health of Tomsk Scientific Research Medical Center
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Brel E.I., Stoianova I.I. CHARACTERISTICS OF ALEXITHYMIA IN THE CONTEXT OF MENTAL HEALTH. The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. 2018;(1):102-108. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2018-1-102-108
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