The Effect of Emotional Regulation Instruction on Alexithymia of High School Students

Aim and Background: Inability in cognitive processing, emotional awareness, and emotion regulation is called Alexithymia.The alexithymia is a common problem among people.The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of emotional regulation instruction on alexithymia of high school students. Methods and Materials:The research method was a semi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test with control group.The statistical population of this study included all female secondary high school students of Neyshabur who studying in the academic year of 2017-18.Among 20 high school students, 30 subjects were selected clustered sampling method and assigned in two control group (n=15) and experimental group randomly (n=15).The intervention program was conducted in 8 sessions of 90 minutes, weekly for the experimental group and the control group received was in wait list.Data were analyzed using covariance analysis Findings: The findings of the study showed that emotional regulation training reduced alexithymia (p<.001).Conclusions: To explain the above results, it can be said that are affected by the emotional ordering of individuals, so that the training of emotional regulation skills reduces alexithymia.