Examination of relationship between social anxiety and alexithymia in students of Islamic Azad University of zahedan branch

Abstract

The goal Investigate relationship between thinking styles with social anxiety in students of Islamic Azad University of Zahedan branch. The method used for this research is descriptive-correlation. The statistical population in- cludes 1500 male and female students aged 19 to 25.Using a Morgan table, it selected 375 peoples randomly. It was used 2 Inventors namely Alexithymia Toronto Inventory of Begby, Parker and Taylor, 1994 and Anxiety Social Inventory of Watson and the Friend. The data were analysis by Index Statistics such as Mean, Pearson Correlation Factor and regression The results showed that there is a significant positive correlation between Alexithymiaand social anxiety. Also there are significant positive correlations between difficulty identifying feelings, difficulty de- scribing feelings and between objective thinking with social anxiety. We entered difficulty describing feelings in first step and then objective thinking in second step into a projected pattern and the two variables could predict changes in social anxiety.