Babaei S, Ranjbar Varandi S, Hatami Z, Gharechahi M. Metacognition Beliefs and General Health in Predicting Alexithymia in Students.
Glob J Health Sci 2015;
8:117-25. [PMID:
26383206 PMCID:
PMC4804023 DOI:
10.5539/gjhs.v8n2p117]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2015] [Accepted: 03/31/2015] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Objectives:
The present study was conducted to investigate the role of metacognition beliefs and general health in alexithymia in Iranian students.
Methods:
This descriptive and correlational study included 200 participants of high schools students, selected randomly from students of two cities (Sari and Dargaz), Iran. Metacognitive Strategies Questionnaire (MCQ-30); the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and Farsi Version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) were used for gathering the data. Using the Pearson’s correlation method and regression, the data were analyzed.
Results:
The findings indicated significant positive relationships between alexithymia and all subscales of general health. The highest correlation was between alexithymia and anxiety subscale (r=0.36, P<0.01). Also, there was a significant negative relationship between alexithymia and some metacognitive strategies. The highest significant negative relationship was seen between alexithymia and the sub-scale of risk uncontrollability (r=-0.359, P < 0.01). Based on the results of multiple regressions, three predictors explained 21% of the variance (R2=0. 21, F=7.238, P<0.01). It was found that anxiety subscale of General Health significantly predicted 13% of the variance of alexithymia (β=0.36, P<0.01) and risk uncontrollability subscale of Metacognition beliefs predicted about 8% of the variance of alexithymia (β=-0.028, P<0.01).
Conclusions:
The findings demonstrated that metacognition beliefs and general health had important role in predicting of alexithymia in students.
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