Self-esteem and its relationship to alexithymia among high school students

Ibrahim, Eslam Gamal Khalil; Al-Ahwany, Hany Hussein Hussein; Abd Elwhab, Mahmoud Ahmed

doi:10.21608/jsrep.2023.321432

Self-esteem and its relationship to alexithymia among high school students

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

قسم الصحة النفسية، كلية التربية بنين بالقاهرة، جامعة الأزهر، مصر

10.21608/jsrep.2023.321432

Abstract

The current research aimed to identify the relationship between self-esteem and alexithymia among high school students, It also aimed to reveal the differences in self-esteem among high school students according to the cultural background (rural/urban), as well as to reveal the differences in alexithymia among secondary school students according to the cultural background (rural/urban). The study sample consisted of (130) male and female students (67 rural) and (63 urban) from high school and Al-Azhar students in the governorates of Giza and Minya, between the ages of (16-18) years, with an average age of (17.22), and a standard deviation of (0.780). The study used the descriptive and relational approach because it is most appropriate for the current study, and the self-esteem scale (prepared by Jamila Benamour, 2018) and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 were applied to them, consisting of (20) items, prepared by (Taylor and Bagby, 1994), and translated (Alaa El-Deen Kafafi and Fouad Al-Dawash, 2011), and the results of the study concluded that there is a positive correlation with statistical significance between the degree of each of self-esteem and alexithymia among secondary school students, and there are differences in self-esteem according to the cultural background (rural/urban) in favor of rural students, and there are no differences in alexithymia according to the cultural background ( rural / urban).

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