Analysing the ability of university students in expressing their emotions in terms of alexithymia and psychological necessities
Abstract
This study searchs the relation between university students’ expressing their emotions and alexithymia and psychological needs according to different variables. Students who have been training at the 1st and the 4 th classes of different faculties of Selcuk University constituted the universe of the research. The sample of the research was composed with 774 student which of whom were 461 girls and 313 boys. t Test, Single track variance analysis, Tukey test, Regression analysis and Pearson Moments Multiplication Correlation were used in analysing the datas. As the result of the research, it was found out that; there was a positive oriented relation between students’ lower scale points of “affinity” of expressing emotions and psychological needs such as success, intercourse, autonomy and dominance lower scale points. It was also found out that; there was a positive oriented relation between students’ lower scale points of “affermativeness” of expressing emotions and psychological needs such as success, intercourse, autonomy and dominance. Moreover, it was found out that; there was a positive oriented relation between university students’ expressing emotions negative emotions lower scale points and psychological needs such as success, intercourse, autonomy, dominance. While feeling of affinity seemed to have a meaningfull positive relation with the need of success which is a psychological need, alexithymia also seemed to have a negative relation with difficulty in determining the emotions.
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