title: Self-esteem and alexithymia.
abstract: 236 college students completed Coopersmith's Self-esteem Inventory and Taylor's 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. As predicted, the total scores on self-esteem and alexithymia were significantly negatively correlated-.42. Two factors of the subjects' orientations of alexithymia, difficulty recognizing and verbalizing feelings and difficulty describing feelings, explained 19% of the variance associated with self-esteem. These results suggest a negative association between difficulty in expressing emotions and college student's self-rated self-esteem.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo 49008-5090, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yelsma
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012016:Reference Values; D012649:Self Concept