TY - JOUR T1 - Dimentions of Alexithymia, and their relationships to Anxiety and Depression in Psychodermatologic patients TT - رابطه بین الکسی تایمیا و مؤلفه های آن با اضطراب و افسردگی در بیماران مبتلا به اختلالات روان تنی پوست JF - QHMS JO - QHMS VL - 19 IS - 5 UR - http://imtj.gmu.ac.ir/article-1-1811-en.html Y1 - 2014 SP - 33 EP - 39 KW - alexithymia KW - anxiety KW - depression KW - psychodermatology disease N2 - Aims: Alexithymia is a personality trait that demonstrates inability in emotional expression. This trait emerging from emotion disregulation has an effective role in etiology of psychosomatic illnesses. Psychosomatic patients, due to somatic illness and also difficulty in emotion regulation, experience anxiety and depression symptoms that exacerbate each other in a cycle with dermatologic illnesses. Methods: In this post-hoc, cross-sectional and correlational study, Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS-20) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) were administered to all 215 patients who were referred to psychodermatology clinic of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences from autumn 2010 to autumn 2012. The final sample consisted of 140 patients. To analyze the data, we used SPSS software V.18. Results: The results showed that the frequency of high alexithymia, anxiety and depression in psychodermatologic patients were 41.8%, 51.2% & 40%, respectively. Assessing the relationship between alexithymia and its subscales with anxiety and depression showed that there were significant positive correlations between alexithymia and difficulty in identifying and describing feelings with anxiety and depression (p M3 ER -